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In a statement to customers, Western Digital states that a malicious actor is behind the issue. Some users have been able to dig into an activity log for their My Book Live and found evidence of an initiated factory restore and shutdown. Screenshot from a Western Digital forum thread User dalogan72 writes, 'All data gone, what kind of security is this?'
#WD MYBOOK FOR MAC 3TB REVIEW FULL#
Previously the 2T volume was almost full, but now it shows full capacity.' Many other users are reporting the same issue. One user, sunpeak, wrote, 'I have just found that somehow all the data on it is gone today, while the directories seems there but empty. WD has advised customers to unplug My Book external hard drives from the web until further notice, as customers are reporting that their data has been completely deleted.Īrs Technica reports that WD's support forum shows that numerous users have lost their data with no obvious hope for recovery. The only issue here may be getting an Australian plug on the power brick and don’t forget freight costs.If you use a Western Digital My Book Live, you want to disconnect it from the internet immediately. Online you will find up to 20% discounts. If you store movies or do video editing etc., then go SSD and feel the price pain. If you have multiple users on a home network consider the WD My Cloud (not the Home version reviewed here) If you are Joe and Jane Average, then the biggest file will be a photo at a few Megabytes (MB).
I recently ran it on eMMC storage in a cheap tablet, and a snail can move faster. Run it on internal or external hard disks or SSD. GadgetGuy’s take – quantity or speedĪny tech head should have Crystal DiskMark in their toolkit. See GadgetGuy’s review on the My Passport Ultras and SSD for their Crystal DiskMark speeds. But you won’t get 8TB – at best 2TB for many, many times the cost. The only way to get faster speeds is to use a USB-C 3.1 Gen 1 (or Gen 2) SSD device. Around 12-15Mb/s is maximum read/write over USB-A 3.0.
I re-tested using the USB-A 3.0 port on the Kensington Thunderbolt 3 dock (review here) and there was no difference. While read/write speeds were acceptable at 171/169.0MB/s (these are internal speeds not using the USB cable/bus) the file transfer rate dropped to between 1.5MB/s read (download from PC) and 1.9MB/s write (upload). Testing is on an HP EliteBook x360 1030 G2 (GadgetGuy review here) directly connected to a USB-A 3.0 port.
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Unfortunately, speed is the Achilles heel of all Serial ATA (USB) devices. Import your photos, videos and docs to the My Book drive to help preserve your online life.
#WD MYBOOK FOR MAC 3TB REVIEW SOFTWARE#
WDDiscovery software connects to popular social media and cloud storage services, like Facebook, Dropbox and Google Drive. WDSecurity turns on the drives built-in 256-bit AES hardware encryption. The My Book also works with Acronis True Image WD Edition to schedule full system backups. WDBackup for Windows and Apple Time Machine compatibility for Mac can back up your photos, videos, music and documents.
set a sleep timer (turn off when not in use).check for potential failures (SMART test).
#WD MYBOOK FOR MAC 3TB REVIEW INSTALL#
You don’t need to install this to use the drive. WDDriveUtilities is a drive health and management utility. Windows Utilities (dotNetFx40 x86/圆4 framework provided) The drive is 139.3 x 49 x 170.6mm x around 1kg. Within seconds Windows recognises the device and gives it a drive letter.Connect the USB-A 3.0 cable to your USB 3.0 port (Mac or Windows).The review unit was 8TB – huge (although the free formatted space is closer to 7.452TB but who is counting). The WD My Book is a USB based, single hard disk in a desktop enclosure.
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