Every problem I've ever had with a WD external drive was caused by the power supply being crap. Once the power supplies burn in, they don't put out enough to power the drive enclosure.
Seems like they use more than one vendor for power supplies, so whether you get a crappy one or not is a crap shoot. On 6/2/2015 10:20 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi 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.
-- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- 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.
