Shergar Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 I don't think this has been posted before and I have no idea if its just a hoax . But it seems serious enough for Western Digital to issue a warning. http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/31/western-digital-warns-external-hard-drive-customers-over-mavericks-data-loss/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearl Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Thanks for the warning Shergar. I use WD drives but not the ones with their software so hopefully I'm OK. Just upgraded to Mavericks at the weekend and there are some minor niggles but not noticed anything major yet. Pearl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Coombs Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Worrying to say the least. Thanks for the heads up on that. Like Pearl, I'm using WD drives but not any of the associated software. Touch wood, all seems ok at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linda Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 I had a LaCie drive get the click of death and die on me this week.I have 8 other back up drives and a few are WD. I was trying to get my system all backed up so I could upgrade to Mavericks so this is good to know. I will hold off.I think I have the software on one or more drives. Thanks for posting. L Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Thanks for the warning. I have a couple of WD drives (with Smartware installed) as alternate backups for my Microsoft PC. There are others without software too. In fact I think my system is backed up on 5 drives. When I change to iMac all software supplied with external drives will be dumped. In fact I my go over to SSDs instead of using spinning disks. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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