Comments on: Western Digital 1TB My Book http://thingelstad.com/western-digital-1tb-my-book/ Jamie Thingelstad's personal blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:44:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marc De Brey http://thingelstad.com/western-digital-1tb-my-book/#comment-928 Marc De Brey Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:54:03 +0000 http://www.thingelstad.com/2007/12/western-digital-1tb-my-book/#comment-928 Jamie, beware of the MyBook 1T. I bought one a little over a month ago to use as a master backup along w/TimeMachine on my iMac. The TimeMachine program works fine, but if the MyBook spins down for some reason, it does not come back up on its own. Initially I thought the drive had simply died. I tried turning it off and on, unplugging it, manually remounting it, etc. --nothing. See the first reviewer's comments on the Amazon listing: htp://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Studio-External-Drive/dp/B000WGJZ44 Eventually I went back to WD's website and filled out an RMA request. I received a new drive in a couple of weeks, and proceeded to plug it in. Not a day later I had the same exact problem. I did a search of blogs & support forums and found that many people also had the same problem. For some reason it doesn't spin back up on its own. I eventually got it to remount, but only after a lot of manual jacking around. So hopefully you won't have the same problem. I'm currently looking for a new drive to replace this one and am planning on returning it to the big blue box. Marc Jamie, beware of the MyBook 1T. I bought one a little over a month ago to use as a master backup along w/TimeMachine on my iMac.

The TimeMachine program works fine, but if the MyBook spins down for some reason, it does not come back up on its own. Initially I thought the drive had simply died. I tried turning it off and on, unplugging it, manually remounting it, etc. –nothing.

See the first reviewer’s comments on the Amazon listing: htp://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Studio-External-Drive/dp/B000WGJZ44

Eventually I went back to WD’s website and filled out an RMA request. I received a new drive in a couple of weeks, and proceeded to plug it in. Not a day later I had the same exact problem. I did a search of blogs & support forums and found that many people also had the same problem. For some reason it doesn’t spin back up on its own. I eventually got it to remount, but only after a lot of manual jacking around.

So hopefully you won’t have the same problem. I’m currently looking for a new drive to replace this one and am planning on returning it to the big blue box.

Marc

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