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In a email send to its costumers Western Digital is discouraging people upgrading to the latest OS X version after reports of data-loss on the new mac OS.

Western Digital recommends people who have already updated to remove their external WD drives and uninstall the WD software to avoid data-loss.

 

Dear WD Registered Customer,

As a valued WD customer we want to make you aware of new reports of Western Digital and other external HDD products experiencing data loss when updating to Apple's OS X Mavericks (10.9). WD is urgently investigating these reports and the possible connection to the WD Drive Manager, WD Raid Manager and WD SmartWare software applications. Until the issue is understood and the cause identified, WD strongly urges our customers to uninstall these software applications before updating to OS X Mavericks (10.9), or delay upgrading. If you have already upgraded to Mavericks, WD recommends that you remove these applications and restart your computer.

The WD Drive Manager, WD Raid Manager, and WD SmartWare software applications are not new and have been available from WD for many years, however solely as a precaution WD has removed these applications from our website as we investigate this issue.

Sincerely,

Western Digital

I know mac's aren't that big on this forum but it's a good thing to spread the word and warn people who do have one :)

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No surprise it's about apple

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Apple dun fucked up

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Apple dun fucked up

Because it's always there fault, right?

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Because it's always there fault, right?

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Meh, my OS X is on a Seagate :D

And you even trust Seagate :rolleyes:. Coming from former seagate staff. 

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Apple dun fucked up

LOL, what are you talking about, it seems  like almost every week there is something that APPLE is not doing right

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And you even trust Seagate :rolleyes:. Coming from former seagate staff. 

 

I've never had a Seagate drive fail on me, but I have had 3 WD drives from family members that I have replaced for them.

 

I still have a 500GB from early 2008 running strong.

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I've never had a Seagate drive fail on me, but I have had 3 WD drives from family members that I have replaced for them.

 

I still have a 500GB from early 2008 running strong.

About time I guess? :lol: :rolleyes: If is working fine try not to update your HDD firmware. :ph34r:

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Toshiba is doing pretty well with their HDD quality recently. Side track.

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About time I guess? :lol: :rolleyes: If is working fine try not to update your HDD firmware. :ph34r:

 

I personally have a 120GB Samsung 840 Series SSD for boot, and 1 TB WD Green for storage which works great as well. I then have 2 Seagate drives lying around that I use for random storage when I need it. (Excluding one, SATA plastic socket broke off from dumb personal mistake)

 

Honestly though I don't think the brand really matters, when it comes down to it they are still hard drives and still frequently fail.

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I personally have a 120GB Samsung 840 Series SSD for boot, and 1 TB WD Green for storage which works great as well. I then have 2 Seagate drives lying around that I use for random storage when I need it. (Excluding one, SATA plastic socket broke off from dumb personal mistake)

 

Honestly though I don't think the brand really matters, when it comes down to it they are still hard drives and still frequently fail.

Then why did you use Samsung 840 Series SSD and WD Green HDD. Why not others? :rolleyes:

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Who even uses software with external drives?

WD did an external drive with Raid 1, which is software based.... epic fail...

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WD did an external drive with Raid 1, which is software based.... epic fail...

 

Epic fail on WDs part! I agree!

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Apple's fault here or not, it seems to be blunder after blunder after blunder for them. Their QA clearly isn't as good as it once was. 

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i think apple are lost without steve... its gotten to the point where it feels like there looking for a contact lens in a wearhouse filled with buttons... its funny but sad at the same time :|

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what's with all the hate with Apple.

 

It's generally been known that WD products really didn't work well with Macs (esp. their ext storage).

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