It doesn't need to be a WD drive, all drive manufactures seem to swap
components to fill out their lines, and I'm not at all sure how much of
the firmware is done in house, and how much is purchased from third
parties. The same bug could crop up with multiple manufactures.
The only way to know is testing.
On 6/2/2015 10:48 AM, Rick Womer wrote:
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
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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
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