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  1. SennaSempre

    Water-Damaged WD MyBook Studio Edition II Quad Interface 6TB

    Hello, this is my 1st post and the reason why I joined. I have a water-damaged hard drive 6TB that had water on-or-in it for 1 day and then I dried it out. I see no water corrosion damage anywhere on the drive itself or the internal control board in the chassis or housing. This hard drive would...
  2. R

    Decrypting a WD external hard drive with Mac OS snow panthers files with a PC. I really F’ed up.

    Some years ago I stored some officials documents on an external western digital hard drive, I also thought it was cool to decrypt them. The operating system was snow leopard, and most of the the files are (.jpegENX) Of course I no longer own a Mac, and I need some of these files to fill in the...
  3. C

    Kernel Panics & Automatic Rebooting

    Hi Macrumors! I am a long time macOS user and have encountered something I never saw before. I am using two external WesternDigital Drives since 2 years. One is a myBook and one a myBook Duo. They are connected with USB. Everything worked flawlessly. I used CarbonCopyCloner to automatically...
  4. P

    WD My Book Duo Dual Drive as JBOD without encryption?

    I received the Western Digital My Book Duo as a holiday gift and am wondering if I can make it work with my Mac by reformatting and using in JBOD configuration without hardware encryption. I'd want to be able to remove the drives from the WD enclosure and use them on their own if I ever needed to.
  5. S

    Macbook Pro Performance with aftermarket flash drives

    I recently purchased a second hand 2014 15" MBP which has had a Western Digital Flash Hard Drive installed. I've only ever had macs with original drives. I had a problem restoring from backup (now resolved) which got me nervous: - big sur was installed - when I went to restore mode (CMD R) it...
    • Srom89
    • Thread
    • flash drive hard drive advice macbook pro "15 2014 western digital
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  6. F

    MP 1,1-5,1 WD Blue HDD in 3,1

    I'm looking to add 3 2TB 3.5 HDD to my "new" 3,1. In the past I've stuck with WD black. How are the 7200 Blues? Used OK from a reliable source? No heavy lifting, streaming media locally to my hifi via Emby WiFi. Storage and editing audio. No picture .
    • flang
    • Thread
    • drives western digital
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  7. usmcgymnast

    WD Passport not visible on Mojave

    I finally talked my mom into replacing her 2008 MacBook (El Capitan 10.11.6) with a 2019 iMac (Mojave 10.14.5). Last year I bought her a WD Passport Ultra 1Tb to serve as her Time Machine. I have a 2016 MacBook Pro (High Sierra 10.13.6). I backed her 2008 MacBook up tonight with her Passport...
    • usmcgymnast
    • Thread
    • el capitan external external hard drive external hard drive fails to mount high sierra mojave passport passport ultra wd passport western digital
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS Mojave (10.14)
  8. B S Magnet

    Resolved WD Drive Manager for PPC

    This is probably more a request than a remark about the WD Drive Manager Utility for WD’s external kits. I’ve owned and used a MyBook Studio II (the dual-drive model, ca. 2012, with FW800, USB 2.0, and eSATA connectivity). It's steady and reliable, and in the past I've configured it using the...
    • B S Magnet
    • Thread
    • external drives hardware raid ppc utilities wd drive manager western digital
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  9. Skeptical.me

    Disk Utility - Formatting MS-DOS FAT

    Hi, I have a 6TB WD External Elements drive and it was formatted to NTFS. I need to format the drive to Fat32 and so I tried doing this but after reformatting it to Fat32 it shows that 4.4TB is used and 1.6TB is free and I cannot figure out why. I have not partition the drive at all. And no...
    • Skeptical.me
    • Thread
    • disk utility fat32 ntfs format western digital
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  10. DCWolfie

    NAS serving low speed

    So I have a problem with my NAS just giving me around 10-15MB/s write and ~20MB/s read. This is a WD EX2 with two WD RED 4TB discs. I've done a lot of troubleshooting, but now I'm completely lost. Connecting the unit directly to a computer with an Ethernet cable gives speeds of over 100MB/s, so...
    • DCWolfie
    • Thread
    • afs ex2 mycloud nas networking nfs smb speed western digital
    • Replies: 40
    • Forum: Networking
  11. seitsme

    high capacity hdd for WD passport usb2

    hi there, my old WD passport hdd (sata) stopped operating after long time... my wd passport red colour plastic enclosure, contains a wd 3200 bmvs-11F9S0 hdd, which i see is 5400rpm speed. SATA. Capacity 320GB. Its 2.5" AT 9.5mm - i guess these are dimensions or type of hdd - the mini one, slim...
  12. H

    Yes, another external hard drive question

    Because I'm a bit neurotic in general, which leads me to over-research and over-think stuff sometimes, my head is spinning a bit trying to decide which external hard drive to purchase for my mid-2010 MacBook Pro 15 inch. This will be my first external hard drive. Anyhow, after reading numerous...
    • haremite
    • Thread
    • external hard drives g technology high sierra macbook pro owc seagate western digital
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Mac Accessories
  13. Ranstone

    Reduce static interference from external HDD

    I just got a HDD for my golden oldie Mac. In a classic example of the disadvantages of on-board sound, when the HDD writes or reads, the static byproduct coming through my speakers/headphones sounds like an there's an Atari game running in the background. I have two older HDDs attached, and...
    • Ranstone
    • Thread
    • audio external hard trive hdd help interference noise static western digital
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: iMac
  14. PhillyGuy72

    Another External Hard Drive became "Read Only"

    I know this is not the first post about this issue, I just can't seem to find a fix for this or why it keeps happening. Once again out of the blue last night, this is now the second external hard drive that suddenly changed to "read only" in less than 2 years. These are Mac ready WD external...
    • PhillyGuy72
    • Thread
    • external hard drive hard drive becomes read only mac os extended mac os extended journaled read only files western digital
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: iMac
  15. D

    Resolved Is the Western Digital Red NAS 8TB drive 100% compatible with the Mac Pro 4,1?

    I'm on the verge of buying this hard drive: https://www.wdc.com/en-gb/products/internal-storage/wd-red.html#WD80EFZX to use to clone my boot drive to as a backup. (I'm aware that they can be had for far less money via places other than from WD themselves). As it's a much more modern drive...
    • Diamond Dave
    • Thread
    • 4.1 clone el capitan hard drive advice mac pro mavericks raid 0 red snow leopard western digital
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Mac Pro
  16. T

    WD Blue 3.5" HDD is humming

    Hi all, I recently bought a WD Blue 3.5" HDD 7200 RPM and put it in an Orico HDD Enclosure to make it an external drive. However, when I turn on, the drive create a very annoying low frequency humming noise and it's pretty loud. I have never experienced that with my old Samsung drive in the...
    • thinhpham
    • Thread
    • 7200 rpm enclosure hard drive hdd humming noise western digital
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Mac Accessories
  17. Morgan Mac

    Corrupted WD Hard-Drive

    Alright guys, I'm in real trouble here. I accidentally erased my main hard-drive with all my stuff on it. Worse than that, I only partially erased it, as I shut off the computer when I realised what I was doing. Worse again, the hard-drive was encrypted, which makes potential data recovery even...
  18. A

    External Hard Drive shows in Disk Utility but cannot repair or verify

    I have a WD external HD. When I plug it in, i get the error message: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer.", with only the options to ignore or eject, NO OPTION TO INITIALIZE. It doesn't show in desktop, but it does in Disk Utility. I have no options to verify or repair the...
  19. Lord Blackadder

    Western Digital Black or Blue?

    I have a pair of 1TB HDDs I use as a redundant storage array in my Mid 2010 Mac Pro (With a 512GB SSD as a boot drive). I want to upgrade to 2 or 3TB HDDs and have been shopping the Western Digital range. Until recently WD Black and Blue were both 7200RPM drives, but now Newegg and Amazon are...
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