Thanks, everyone. Darren, that is a very interesting link.
Stan, the only WD drive hooked up to the MBP is a portable drive I keep a CCC backup on. OTOH my Mac Mini at home (my photo computer) has an external WD MyBook that holds all of my pix (backed up to an OWC drive with Time Machine). Still pondering… Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > Stan, > > I had a couple of WD RAID drives. The enclosures were crap, one failed within > three months, the other ran but the configuration software wouldn't. I > wouldn't blame OS X for their junk. I ripped all the drives out of those > enclosures, tossed the enclosures, and put the drives into > OtherWorldComputing's "Mercury Elite" enclosures—that was in 2008, the drives > are still working beautifully today, with all my systems running Yosemite. WD > produces good drives and crap enclosures and software, far as I'm concerned. > LaCie is much more robust on the software and enclosure side of the fence. > > — > Otherwise … > > I stay up to date on operating system and application software for all my > devices. Always. That way, I'm never making big jumps from ancient to > current, and everything tends to work more smoothly. I might update one > device and test it first before putting new releases onto my primary work > machine, but the testing has rarely shown me a reason to hold off. PowerPC > software is antique now … I deleted all of it when Snow Leopard came out and > replaced it with newer, more modern, better functioning current software. > > The new look and feel of Yosemite was a little jarring at first, but eh? I've > seen hundreds of variations on the these of OS UI since 1984. I always > reserve judgement on anything new in UI look and feel for a month or two. I > find that, for the most part, within a week and I can hardly remember what > the old stuff looked like—and moreover, usually forget how to operate the old > stuff nearly as fast. I concentrate my critique on things that don't function > well, and file bugs with Apple (and third party companies) regularly. I've > found that what I file as bugs is usually fixed within one or two dot-dot > releases. > > I've had good experience with Yosemite, and by-and-large the industry reports > of end-user problems have show the lowest bug count of the past four OS X > releases. All of my work and personal Macs are running it (that's three > laptops, two desktops, with the oldest machines being late-2010 issue) > without any problems. > > What suits a particular person's needs, however, I cannot say for sure > without lots more information about required use, required software, and the > ability to obtain updated and more compatible software if there are > incompatibilities. Advising on such things is a business of relevant detail > information, not general suggestions. > > G > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
