Wd My Book Studio External Drive For Mac

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Click to expand.I should have suspected the WD Turbo drivers since they date from 2013, but I thought for sure I had removed them. Apparently, that was the problem, but I'll keep watching. If anyone else encounters this, the WD Utilities don't seem to be a problem. But the Turbo drivers were, and to uninstall them, you need to run the install utility and choose 'remove.'

Jul 29, 2011 - The Western Digital My Book Studio 3TB external hard drive is a simple solution for backing up data from your pre-2011 Mac via FireWire. Available now at select retailers and the WD online store (shopwd.com), the new My Book Studio drives are formatted for Mac and offered in capacities of 500 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB. Creative professionals generate, store and back up massive amounts of digital content. Welcome to your My Book® Studio™ external hard drive, an elegant, high-capacity. Designed for the expert Mac user, this drive offers ultra-fast USB 3.0. Your My Book Studio drive and the WD Security and WD Drive Utilities software are.

Warning: after the restart, it still is a very slow boot up the first time. Subsequent reboots work normally. I would recommend removing the Turbo drivers prior to running the Sierra installation.

That hang on boot up is lengthy and leads you to believe the system is corrupt. So this is how I got it to work: 1.

Download the last turbo drive installer(Yes that's the 2013 ones) 2. Open it and remove the drivers. If they are not installed install them. Install the drivers and repeat point number 2 and 3 5. Restart the mac and press option (alt) at the chime 6. When the boot HD is displayed, disconnect and reconnect your MyBook till it shows up.

The system may restart automatically. Press again option at the chime and make sure the hard drive is showing correctly. Choose Macintosh HD and boot up the system. The HD should show in finder. I tried the above and it didn't work. When I insert the external into my MBP, it shows up as 'EFI Boot', along with the Machintosh HD. However, after boot, it doesn't show up in Finder.

I can connect the drive to my MBA with El Capitan and see things fine. The drive tests all show no problems. Sadly, my TimeMachine backup is on the drive, so as of now, I'm trying to figure out how to get the backup off this drive and on to another so I can downgrade back to El Capitan until they work out more bugs with Sierra. So this is how I got it to work: 1. Download the last turbo drive installer(Yes that's the 2013 ones) 2. Open it and remove the drivers.

If they are not installed install them. Install the drivers and repeat point number 2 and 3 5. Restart the mac and press option (alt) at the chime 6. When the boot HD is displayed, disconnect and reconnect your MyBook till it shows up. The system may restart automatically. Press again option at the chime and make sure the hard drive is showing correctly.

Choose Macintosh HD and boot up the system. The HD should show in finder. Click to expand.

I also have to restart my Thunderbolt Lacie after a reboot. USB 2.0 Bus: Host Controller Driver: AppleUSBEHCIPCI PCI Device ID: 0x1c2d PCI Revision ID: 0x0005 PCI Vendor ID: 0x8086 FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in): Product ID: 0x850b Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.) Version: 7.55 Serial Number: CC2B9D056ADGGFLP Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Location ID: 0xfa200000 / 2 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 500 Extra Operating Current (mA): 0 Built-In: Yes Hub: Product ID: 0x2514 Vendor ID: 0x0424 (SMSC) Version: 0.03 Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec Location ID: 0xfa100000 / 1 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 2 Extra Operating Current (mA): 0 Built-In: Yes Keyboard Hub: Product ID: 0x1006 Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.) Version: 96.15 Serial Number: 00 Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec Manufacturer: Apple, Inc. Location ID: 0xfa130000 / 5 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 300 Extra Operating Current (mA): 0 Apple Keyboard: Product ID: 0x024f Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.) Version: 0.74 Speed: Up to 1.5 Mb/sec Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Location ID: 0xfa132000 / 9 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 20 Extra Operating Current (mA): 0 iPad: Product ID: 0x12ab Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.) Version: 5.03 Serial Number: ebe9ee88e9fcaadece95cfaee24e2c Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Location ID: 0xfa120000 / 4 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 500 Extra Operating Current (mA): 1600 Sleep current (mA): 2100 BRCM2046 Hub: Product ID: 0x4500 Vendor ID: 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.) Version: 1.00 Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec Manufacturer: Apple Inc.

Location ID: 0xfa110000 / 3 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 0 Extra Operating Current (mA): 0 Built-In: Yes Bluetooth USB Host Controller: Product ID: 0x8215 Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.) Version: 2.08 Serial Number: 3451C9F336B6 Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Location ID: 0xfa111000 / 6 Current Available (mA): 500 Current Required (mA): 0 Extra Operating Current (mA): 0 Built-In: Yes. Click to expand.My advice is don't aggravate yourself with trying. In my search I actually read a response that was sent to another guy. All the tech did was reference that the original manual never claimed to support High Sierra. I too have a raid studio edition II.

It is a great drive but the raid settings are no longer available. This drive did not like being hooked up sata through my Thunderbolt dock. I was getting random unmounting troubles. I went back to Firewire 800. That being said it is one of the greatest drives I ever owned. It always works as I expect when connected to Firewire.

Technology changes. This drive is old now. In fact I bought a 8TB MyBook Duo. It is amazing.

By far the fastest external spinning hard drive I ever saw.

October 3rd, 2013 by Brian Beeler WD My Book and My Book for Mac Review WD their My Book external desktop hard drive line for both the Mac and PC audiences. The new drives feature a redesigned enclosure that better aligns with modern design and updates to WD's suite of software that comes with each drive. The My Book for PC comes in 2TB, 3TB and 4TB capacities while the My Book for Mac tops out at 3TB.

Both drives ship with a USB 3.0 interface for rapid access to the hard drive inside. The two My Book products are essentially the same, the core difference is in the formatting of the drive; both are ready to go out of the box for their respective operating system targets. Of course either drive may be reformatted should the user require such at some point in the future. The enclosures themselves are identical, save for the branding on the Mac unit. The obvious question is why does the My Book for Mac top out at 3TB.

The answer comes in the positioning of the product. WD has a more extensive desktop line for the Mac, with the premium, which features an all-metal enclosure and capacities up to 4TB. The desktop storage PC products are comprised of the value-oriented Elements line which is offered in 1TB-3TB capacities and the updated My Book which hits the top-end capacity point. So where the My Book is the top single-drive offering for the PC, it's the entry offering for the Mac. The My Book for PC and Mac are both shipping now. Our review units are the 4TB PC capacity and 3TB Mac capacity.

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WD My Book Specifications. My Book for PC.

Capacities:. 2TB (WDBFJK0020HBK). 3TB (WDBFJK0030HBK).

4TB (WDBFJK0040HBK). My Book for Mac.

Capacities:. 2TB (WDBYCC0020HBK). 3TB WDBYCC0030HBK). Interface: USB 3.0. Dimensions: Height 6.70 Inches x Depth 5.50 Inches x Width 1.90 Inches.

Weight: up to 2.27 Pounds. Warranty. My Book for PC: 2 years. My Book for Mac: 3 years Design and Build While the fundamental shape of the My Book line hasn't changed much, they still look like a squatty hardbound book, WD had modernized the look in subtle but significant ways. The enclosures have a shiny black plastic shell, with a matte branding inlay that wraps around from the front to right side. Even the inlay has a little extra pizzazz on the side, along with the drive access indicator light on the front. The only down side to the glossy shell is that it's a fingerprint magnet and scratches easily.

The units are fan-less, which makes the venting around the top, back and bottom a required feature so the drive inside can easily shed its heat. The drive is meant to be used vertically, with four rubber feet on the bottom to prevent slipping on a flat desk surface. The back of the unit has the USB port, power port and Kensington lock slot. Software WD includes quite a bit of software with the My Book products. The PC version comes with a robust offering including Acronis True Image, WD SmartWare, WD Utilities and WD Security. WD's updated SmartWare software is the highlight of the included programs.

It's a comprehensive offering that allows PC users to have an easy to manage, yet flexible backup solution. Users can opt to backup specific files types or folders and manage the frequency accordingly.

SmartWare Pro is also available for a free 30 day trial or $20 license, and provides additional backup options across any USB drive and offers integration with Dropbox for cloud backup. For a more complete system recovery solution, WD has included Acronis True Image which can take regular snapshots of the entire system. The Mac software suite is a little more spartan, taking into account that the platform comes with Time Machine and other tools that the PC doesn't always have. WD focuses their efforts here on a WD drive utilities tool that includes features like SMART data collector, drive diagnostics tools and sleep timer, which can power the drive down after a period of inactivity. WD also offers a security utility that requires a password to access the drive. These tools are also available for the PC version. Overall, all of the software provides significant value-add, more so on the PC side, and makes managing the drive much easier than competitive solutions.

While many external drives include a lot of software with questionable benefit, the WD tools are a usefull addition. Performance With the 3TB My Book for Mac attached to a current generation MacBook over USB 3.0, the drive saw read and write throughput of roughly 147MB/s using Black Magic.

Switching to our Windows environment for that same drive, we measured 151MB/s read and 138MB/s write. The 4TB My Book designed for Windows environments measured 149MB/s read and 141MB/s write over USB 3.0.

The drives inside each My Book could vary depending on drive availability but the numbers we saw in the two review units were at the top end of the single-drive, and much faster than the 127MB/s throughput in the product. Conclusion The WD My Book gets a more modern design, updated software suite for PC and a USB 3.0 interface that drives pretty peppy performance for a single drive desktop enclosure. At near 150MB/s throughput the drive is well suited for typical desktop drive duty like backup, media file storage and the like. PC users will see good value from the included software tools, the Mac side gets a good drive utility and gets to keep relying on Time Machine for backup. In the end there's nothing too fancy about the My Book product.but then again that's the point, the drives perform well and get the job done reliably.

Pros. Nice aesthetic improvements. Good value-add software suite. Performs well thanks to USB 3.0 interface Cons. No 4TB Mac capacity Bottom Line The WD My Book for PC and Mac brings a new look and great drive tools to a market that's flush with less comprehensive offerings.

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The My Book line stands out as a great option for those who need a simple direct attached storage option.