This was a pleasant surprise to me actually because I really don't like the way that WD does that with their MyPassport edition drives. They used to do it with the MyBook Essential drives as well and possibly with some of them they still do. But with the version Lynne bought, the software was easy to remove and there's no extra mounted hidden partition lurking unwanted and unused on the desktop.
On 13 Sep 2012, at 19:42, Sarah Alawami <[email protected]> wrote: Nice. I buy now nothing but western digital drives. I have a 2 tb elements dive that's so quiet I forget it's even on and it hardly gets warm and it's been on for about 2 or 3 months now. lol! I had a my book drive and it was good although noisy as all get out. I'm glad they have changed so much and for the better. On Sep 13, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody > > Today we went to a local computer hardware store and bought one of the new > Western Digital MyBook Essential drives. These new drives are absolutely > light years ahead of the previous generation. > > Western Digital has now dropped support for FireWire 800 (1394B), in favour > of USB 3.0. This is probably a logical step; although we were a little > disappointed that the drives are not Thunderbolt compatible. > > Be that as it may, these new drives come in 1, 2 and 3TB versions, and what > we were just as pleased about is that Western Digital has done away with the > idea of creating hidden, locked, partitions on your drive. They now just > give you a single partitioned NTFS format drive. We, being Mac users, > re-partitioned the drive, and it went without a hitch. > > Currently, we are getting some pretty amazing throughput figures from the > drive. We are moving a large amount of data from an older version of the same > kind of drive. It has FireWire 800. We realise that this isn't really a full > test because the other drive isn't as fast as the target. However, it is > positively flying and we should manage to get all 1.5TB of our data moved > today. > > Given previous history of WD, very impressive on this occasion. > > Lynne > > > ======================================= > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at > either of the following websites: > > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > --------------------------------------- ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- <--- Gordon Smith ---> <[email protected]> Telephone: If you have a SIP phone, just dial: [email protected] United Kingdom: Free Phone: 0800 8620538 Europe and other non-specified: +44 1642 688095 United States Of America And Canada: +1 646 9151493 Australia: +61 38 8205930 Fax: +44 1642 365123 Follow Us On Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/@maciosaccess> ------------------------------ ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
