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WD “My Book Studio” 2TB - rpm? [closed]
The rpm rating of this drive doesn't seem to be listed anywhere. Not on the box, not in the manual, not online, not even on Western Digital's website. I even called them but they were evasive, ...
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USB drive: “Media is write protected” on initialize after drive swap WD MyBook Essentials
I got a WD MyBook Essentials the other day but after a week or so the drive physically broke.
I tried opening the case and replacing the drive with another SATA WD drive I had lying around. This ...
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Hack WD MyBook Pro
I have a WD MyBook Pro that is acting up with regard to the controller board & I'm thinking it's just because of that stupid power management stuff WD tries to force the drive to do. Is there any ...
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Planning on buying a Western Digital My Book, is there a SmartWare-like solution for Linux?
I would like to be able to do the automated backup thing Western Digital advertises on their My Book's, on Linux workstations. Is there a compatible solution for Linux? Is SmartWare just some generic ...
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Remote desktop disables eSATA drive (MyBook)
I'm running Windows 7 and I have a 1TB Western Digital MyBook drive attached via eSATA. Whenever I connect via remote desktop, the drive seems to disappear. If I login to the system locally and reboot ...
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my WD Mybook wd5000h0032 is DEAD?
i have a WD Mybook Premium (wd5000h032) it used to work just fine but suddenly i can't access to it. The blue lights turn on but the drive doesn't start, it makes no click, nor any other sound, it ...
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Upgrading disks in WD My Book Studio Edition II
About 18 months ago, I purchased a 1Tb Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II for backup of my home system.
It has 2x 500Gb drives in it, which I had configured as RAID 1. One of the disks has now ...
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How to fix: Western Digital My Book 500GB - fail to install drivers, is not accessible
The WD-My Book 500GB is recognized as a local disc in my system(Windows 7), but it's drivers fail to install successfully when connected via USB cable with computer. Then when I try to open ...
