Hello,
I bought a WD Drive last year, and it does have a hidden partition. In
addition, it says you have to install this organizing software in order
to use it. I found the software to be inaccessible, and I also found
you did not have to install it to use the drive.
Other than that, though, I've had no problems with the drive. I got it
to store books and music. It's a desktop version, but still small
enough to move if I need to.
Quoting Gordon Smith <[email protected]>:
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.
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