Hi Sarah I have moved this from Mac Access because it isn't Apple specific so it doesn't belong on that list really.
The newer drives have that hidden partition on them, whereas the old ones did not. They just allowed you to delete the software if you didn't want it. I've been using WD drives for about 15 years up until a couple of years ago. In the good old days, they were excellent. But the new ones are a disaster. Lynne and I have had 3 of them die in the last 12 months alone. Not portable ones I grant you that. I do actually have one of those Passport drives here but only because somebody bought me it as a present last Christmas. The MyBook drives are a pile of junk in my opinion. They're not reliable and they are actually very slow. We also have one of the MyBook Studio Edition drives here which is a 2TB drive that has 1394B, USB2 and SATA interfaces. To be fair, that drive has given us reasonably good performance and the only reason it's kind of held together by tape and blew is that it was dropped on one occasion as we were carrying it from point A to point B. But I will say this about the large models, the power supplies are absolutely dreadful. They die more frequently than the drives. On 19 Aug 2011, at 18:59, Sarah Alawami wrote: Really? I've had nothing but good luck in the 4 years I've used western digital drives. I own 3 of them now actually. Also I don't remember seeing hidden partition. I just reformatted the whole thing when I got it and that was that. Now the other drive you mentioned. all of those I had died with in a year of my buying them and I lost a lot of stuff so for me the western digital drives are what I use and hopefully unless something comes along that's better is what I will continue to use. My studio is very quiet because of them. On Aug 19, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: > Hello Sarah > > We have a couple of these things and, to be honest, they're really nothing > special. We've also had more trouble with WD drives than any other computing > component. Seagate drives are faster, slicker, more reliable and more Mac > compatible. > > The thing I hate about the WD drives is that there's always a hidden > partition on them which you can't re-format. Horrible! > > Gordon > > > On 19 Aug 2011, at 16:55, Sarah Alawami wrote: > > I love these little drives. Wish I had one but ah well. it works. 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