Western Digital (WD) still recommends installing the SES driver when not using WD SmartWare although the drive still works well without it. the prompts to install the driver are part of the Windows operating system (OS) and will always happen when connecting a drive to a Windows computer witho...
If something like that sleep bug in Mountain Lion occurred, there is potential for it to wreck both devices (and certainly with Windows, there are malware threats) and thus IMO leaving a backup device connected is a bad idea unless you have a second backup device for such poten...
Several interesting threads popped up in Reddit over the weekend claiming thatWDwas surreptitiously shipping inferior shingled magnetic recording (SMR) hard drives in its new WD Red NAS line of drives, but without disclosing that the drives use the slower recording technique. We sent queries to WD...
Install Western Digital Software for Mac.dmg Install Western Digital Software for Windows.exe [Folder] System Volume Information The drive is powered by the usb-a cord that was included in the box (standard USB-A to weird thin USB into the drive). Any thoughts would be super helpful....
We use an Alder Lake platform with most background applications such as indexing, Windows updates, and anti-virus disabled in the OS to reduce run-to-run variability. Each SSD is prefilled to 50% capacity and tested as a secondary device. Unless noted, we use active cooling for all SSDs...
Western Digital has launched a number of new storage solutions aimed at professionals and content creators under the refreshed SanDisk Professional branding.
Western Digital's 2TB ArmorLock encrypted NVMe SSD allows users to ditch complicated or easily compromised passwords without compromising security.
Spinning drives could continue to offer a better price per GB for another decade. By Ryan Whitwam October 12, 2017 Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share on Reddit (opens in a new window) Share on Hacker News (opens in a new ...
In the Settings section, you can configure a few different options, such as enabling WD dashboard to load when you boot up your computer, change the software language, or turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing. If the latter is enabled, your computer will regularly write all cached dat...
as i got WD20EARS which is TLER not supported so i changed from my intel RAID MOBO to Windows Software Raid 5 hoping that TLER is not reuired in SOFT Raid so my HD will not dropped if they take much time to repair the Bad Sectors what do you think? Mousemonkey Titan Sep 3, ...