• Wd My Book For Mac Hard Drive

Hey, I'm having problems with my 1 TB WD My Book Essential Drive (External USB HDD). I've only had it for a couple months and now it's not showing up on my Macbook Pro. I checked Disk Utility to see if it shows up there and it doesn't. What happens is I plug in my drive to power and the drive starts spinning up. That's all that happens, there's no lights indicating that it is doing something or even on. I then plug it into my Macbook Pro and nothing happens still.

My computer doesn't notice the drive and the drive doesn't realize it is connected to a computer. After 30 minutes or so, the drive shows a white light meaning that it is on, but nothing after that. No matter how many times I unplug it/ plug it in or even switch cables, the drive still doesn't want to be recognized. I really don't think the drive is damaged as I've been able to access data on it before and haven't done anything to it that would physically damage the drive since then. I did plug in this drive to my Xbox 360 and customized it to be used as an external hard drive, but all my data was retained (I checked after doing it).

I don't know if that would have an effect on it, but even then, when I plugged it back into my computer, it would take 30 min or so before my Mac would even mount the drive (it did recognize it as a device though). Any help would be appreciated. If you need any additional info, let me know.

Hi Everyone, I have had a WD My Book 2TB/USB2 version for just over a year and started having some very strange problems in the last month. The permissions keep changing to I can only Read and not write files to it.

OS: Mac OS X 'Snow Leopard' 10.6.2 Mac: MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Early 2008. Hey, I'm having problems with my 1 TB WD My Book Essential Drive (External USB HDD). I've only had it for a couple months and now it's not showing up on my Macbook Pro. I checked Disk Utility to see if it shows up there and it doesn't. What happens is I plug in my drive to power and the drive starts spinning up.

That's all that happens, there's no lights indicating that it is doing something or even on. I then plug it into my Macbook Pro and nothing happens still. My computer doesn't notice the drive and the drive doesn't realize it is connected to a computer. After 30 minutes or so, the drive shows a white light meaning that it is on, but nothing after that. No matter how many times I unplug it/ plug it in or even switch cables, the drive still doesn't want to be recognized. I really don't think the drive is damaged as I've been able to access data on it before and haven't done anything to it that would physically damage the drive since then. I did plug in this drive to my Xbox 360 and customized it to be used as an external hard drive, but all my data was retained (I checked after doing it).

I don't know if that would have an effect on it, but even then, when I plugged it back into my computer, it would take 30 min or so before my Mac would even mount the drive (it did recognize it as a device though). Any help would be appreciated.

If you need any additional info, let me know. OS: Mac OS X 'Snow Leopard' 10.6.2 Mac: MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Early 2008. Click to expand.I'm starting to dislike WD for that reason. It seems random whenever my drive mounts and whether it works or not. Now, it just doesn't want to work at all no matter what I try.

I did try shutting my computer down again after you said that while praying that for some cosmic reason my drive would start working again. Unfortunately, it didn't. Thanks for your reply though.

I might just have to ring up WD tech support in hopes they can help me. My worry is that they will just say they have no clue what it is and that I should send it in. Drivers Wanted Hey, Apple support and WD support are both worthless here, nowhere I got to find a hint about this, but after timeless hours spent on rebooting, fixing permissions and other useless 'tricks', I found out that: 1 - WD My Book does not work with 10.6 in FireWire 800, only USB connection works 2- there is a driver needed for 10.6 too, even this driver specs only mentions 10.4 and 10.5. You can download and install WDDriveManager from: It has fixed this issue on both my old MacBook Pro (Intel core 2 Duo) and my MacMini (brand new) connected to 2 different MyBook Models (one Essential 500GB and one Premium 1TB edition) so I guess it's pretty universal I guess.

This article needs attention from an expert on the subject. Please add a reason or a talk parameter to this template to explain the issue with the article. When placing this tag, consider with a. (March 2016) My Book is a series of produced. There are currently nine series of My Book drives; Essential Edition, Home Edition, Office Edition, Mirror Edition, Studio Edition, Premium Edition, Elite Edition, Pro Edition, AV Dvr 'Live Edition', and the World Edition.

My Book drives are designed to look like a standard black hardback book, with the exception of the Pro/Studio series, which are silver, and the World series, which are white. Other than the book-like appearance of the drive's case, My Book drives originally featured vent holes on the top of the drives which spelled out a message in. Contents.

Essential Edition In addition to the book-like design, the My Book Essential Edition drives have an Intelligent feature that stops the after ten minutes of inactivity, rather than the usual expedient of slowing them down. The unit also turns on and off with the computer it is attached to. Essential Edition My Book drives are almost entirely black, with the exception of a single blue light, used to indicate power and activity, or a circular green light that is located on the front of the drive. The older model has a white light. 'Essential Edition' drives used USB 2.0 for connectivity are available in capacities of 80GB, 160GB, 250GB, 320GB, 400GB, 500GB and 750GB. Premium Edition Premium Edition drives are similar to the Essential Edition model but also include 400 ports, an integrated visual capacity gauge and Western Digital backup software. Premium Edition My Book drives have the same black case as Essential Edition drives; however, the light surrounding the power button is blue.

Also, inside the standard blue light is another blue ring light that contains eight individual segments which indicate the remaining space on the drive. This edition is available with storage capacities of 160 GB, 250 GB, 320 GB, 400 GB, and 750 GB. Pro Edition The Pro Edition My Books contain all of the features of the Premium Edition ones, but with added Firewire 800 connectivity for fast data transfer.

In addition, the Pro Edition My Books replace the Western Digital backup software found on the Premium Editions with EMC Retrospect Express backup and recovery software. Pro Edition My Book drives have the same basic case design as Premium Edition drives; however, the case is silver rather than black. In addition, it includes a circular blue capacity gauge LED divided into six segments (representing 17% of usage per segment) and an outer ring that represents drive activity. The 'Pro Edition MyBook' is marketed as a solution that can be used as a backup device.

Pro Edition II This edition was available with storage capacities of 500 GB, 640 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB, and 2 TB. Premium Edition II This edition is black and was available with storage capacities of 500 GB, 640 GB, 1 TB, 1.5 TB, and 2 TB. World Edition. My Book World Edition (WD10000H1NC) The World Edition My Books function as (NAS), by way of an interface. They also feature an extra USB host port to allow an additional USB drive to be. Data on first generation (Blue Rings) My Book World is accessed as / shared folders.

The second generation (White Lights) expands the access choices to include NFS, FTP, an iTunes server, and a Twonky media server. In addition, the World Edition uses to gain to the drive via the Internet. It has the same basic case design as the Premium Edition drives, including the capacity gauge, except the color of the World Edition is white.

It has the same ventilation as the other editions. Network speed Although MyBook Ethernet-capable disks come with a Gigabit Ethernet interface, the network speed is significantly slower. Especially for older 'blue rings' models (200 MHz ARM CPU and 32 MByte RAM), where it varies between 3–6 MByte/s, with an average of 4.5 MByte/s. The newer 'white lights' MyBook World Edition 1 TB and 2 TB storage capacity models, WDH1NC and WDH2NC (oxnas810, 380 MHz ARM CPU and 128 MByte RAM), have drive speeds comparable to USB, at about 10 MB/s write and 25 MB/s read. The 'white lights' WDH1NC is Jumbo Frames capable and can achieve 36 MByte/s reading and 18 MByte/s writing speed over Gigabit Ethernet. Internals. Controller board for My Book World Edition This drive runs on on an Oxford Semiconductor 0XE800 chip which has the ARM926EJ-S core.

In addition it uses a Cicada Simpliphy vt6122 Gigabit Ethernet chipset, and a 32 Mbit DDR Synchronous DRAM chip. The webserver is the minihttp server, although older 'bluerings' use. The drives of the World Edition are or formatted, which means that the drive can be mounted as a standard drive from within Linux if removed from the casing and installed in a normal PC.

With both sets of commands a utility such as can be used to determine which paths are relevant for a given setup. Extending capabilities The device can be 'unlocked' and accessed via terminal (newer versions of WDH1NC10000 do not need to be 'unlocked': ), meaning that the WD MioNet can be disabled so the device can be run with an unrestricted Linux OS, at the cost of voiding the. The unlocking makes it possible to install other software on MyBook. For example, the user can run a different web server or an ftp server (such as ) on it, use for mounting shared directories natively from, or install a such as. World Edition II.

My Book Studio The MyBook Studio Edition comes with quad interface: USB 2.0 / Firewire 400 / Firewire 800 and eSATA. It is marketed for use with Mac OS X. This edition is available with storage capacities of 1 TB, 1.5 TB and 2 TB. The current edition (as of November 2010) has two Firewire 800 ports and one USB 2.0 mini port. It comes pre-formatted as Mac OS X HFS+. All current My Book Studio LX drives include a 5400RPM Hitachi branded Raptor hard drive. The 'MyBook Studio Edition II' contains two drives and is designed to be used as a RAID system for increased performance.

This edition is available with storage capacities of 1 TB, 2 TB, 4 TB and 6 TB. The two drives can be replaced by the user. The LED gauge has a design fault on these disks. Several users reported that some of the LEDs were burning out after 3 to 4 months of normal usage. Live In 2011, Western Digital released the My Book Live Edition NAS. They range in storage capacity from 1 to 3 TB.

My Book Live uses Applied Micro APM82181 processor working at 800 MHz and has 256 MB of RAM. Broadcom BCM54610 ethernet is able to support 10/100/1000 Mbit/s connectivity. Contrary to previous versions, Live has no USB ports. Instead of a Linux-Kernel & Busybox found in previous versions, Live uses a full-featured.

Live Duo My Book Live Duo was released in January 2012. It features two drives (totaling 6 or 4 TB, depending on the product version) that can be configured in a array; in that case, all data is automatically mirrored and can be recovered if one of the drives fail (but effective drive space is halved). It sports a similar design to the previous My Book Live, but unlike that one this product has a top cover that allows for easily servicing and replacing the drives.

It also has one Gigabit ethernet and one USB connection. AV DVR Expander The My Book DVR Expander is intended to increase the disk capacity of consumer or compatible.

It can also be used connected to a computer, if necessary. The Expander is available with a storage capacity of 1 TB. The DVR Expander was originally designed specifically for the series 3 and onwards and, at that time, the only connectivity was an port. Recent versions come with a connection, as well, and are compatible with, and the Pace, Time Warner and Scientific Atlanta brands of DVR. Mac Edition. My Cloud 4 TB In 2013, has been released by Western Digital. My Cloud uses a Mindspeed Comcerto 2000 (M86261G-12) dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 Communication Processor running at 650 MHz.

The Gigabit Ethernet port is a Broadcom BCM54612E Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver. Other components include 256 MB of Samsung K4B2G1646E DDR3 RAM and 512 KB of Winbound 25X40CL flash. The drive is a WD Red 2 TB (WD20EFRX). My Cloud relies on air convection for cooling, not a fan. As such, it runs very quietly and the only noise you hear is that of the WD Red drive. Morse code.

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