Ditto on Macintosh computers. Using one gig out of the box as a backup one finds out that attaching through a powered hub creates a hard drive that won't wake up for Retrospect, which makes for no backup. When asleep, if it doesn't wake up fast enough for Retrospect, which reports it to the OS as being missing, so it is unmounted by the OS. It's a faulty combination of firmware and non-erasable software that makes it unreliable for anything other than normal storage.
It still sits on the shelf, waiting for some day that I may want to use it for something else. All of my other drives are connected the same way, and work reliably, or as reliable as any hard drive. I keep 5 TB of unused spares on standby (2,2,1). On Jul 31, 2012, at 03:17 , John Sessoms wrote: > This is such a heart-warming story for me. It makes me glad knowing that I'm > not the only person on earth that computers hate. > > I will never buy another Western digital hard-drive, and especially never > another MyBook. > > Several years ago, I bought a couple of MyBook drives (340GB & 500GB) because > they seemed to be really inexpensive. I found out instead that they're just > really CHEAP (Of poor quality; inferior; Worthy of no respect; vulgar or > contemptible). There just don't seem to be enough low, vulgar synonyms for > *PIECE OF SHIT* to describe MyBook power supplies. > > The only "positive" thing I can say about them is Windoze-XP didn't seem to > have any problem blowing away the pre-installed CRAPWARE. > > I wish I had an answer for making folders "sharable" in Vista, but the only > Vista computer I have has only one shared folder & all of the > contents/sub-folders were auto-magically shared as well. > > From: Anthony Farr > >> Backups, to me, originally meant CDs, then DVDs. But doubts were >> raised about the permanence of optical media, and my backup load was >> too large to periodically refresh everything, so I moved to hard >> drives. A couple of years ago I saw a product called Clickfree >> Automatic Backup, which is a small device placed in the usb cable >> between a computer on a wifi network and an external hard drive. With >> a little bit of software running on each computer in the network, >> they'd all be periodically backed up with no attention required. >> Great! And in all honesty it worked a treat. My son and I had all >> our data secured across 3 computers. >> >> But... and there's always a 'but', isn't there, the time came when my >> 500GB drive wasn't a big enough repository, so I got a 1TB WD MyBook, >> and my troubles began. Although there was nothing wrong with the >> MyBook, it had its own backup software, didn't it. No worries, thinks >> I, I'll just delete it from the drive. I don't want it, didn't ask >> for it and won't ever use it, so why not? The answer to 'why not?' >> was that WD had put the backup software on a fixed partition, and all >> my subsequent research on forum after forum informed me that the >> partition resists every attempt at deletion or reformatting. >> Bastards! >> >> Never mind, thinks I, I'll just ignore it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
