Some discussions here cause me to fear upgrading to Mavericks.
I have two Macs (iMac 24 inch early 2009 with 8 GB using Lion and MB Pro 16 inch with Retina using Mountain Lion).
I use a Western Digital I TB My Passport for Mac on my MB pro and a Time Capsule for backup on my iMac.
Some discussions here mention problems with external hard drives that seem serious enough to convince anyone to not upgrade. I understand that the people that don't have problems don't post here but perhaps they read here before upgrading. I want to upgrade but wonder if there is any place that I can find the actual percent of Mavericks users who are not having problems?
MRBarrett27
. But I wonder if this happens with all external HD or just some.
its happening with ALL external HD, I follow this issue closer than anyone.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5475136?start=255&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5475611?start=300&tstart=0
This has nothing to do with mechanical drives mfg. by WD, nor the controller boards ON the HD.
A hard drive is a lifeless brick, all of them, variances to the data corruption issue here are central to:
A: Mavericks OS (causation still unknown in relation to B or otherwise).
B: software (WD software, known causation as WD has admitted to already).
Run this uninstaller and see if you have any WD software on your system:
Western Digital Software Unintaller released 11-4-2013
For Mac
WD Software Uninstaller
File Name: WD_Software_Uninstaller_1_0_0_8.zip
All evidence currently (barring further investigation) points to:
A: WD control software (w/ Mavericks)
B: WD software cross-contamination in conjunction with Mavericks
C: Mavericks incapacity to deal with non-WD drives in excess of 2+ terabytes.
D: (and a minor sleep issue with external drives thru thunderbolt and firewire)
E: SPOTLIGHT in Mavericks **
Known high risk potentials reporting are -
RAID
partitioned drives
2TB and higher drives
use of WD control software as resident on the computer regardless of WD drives or otherwise
,..increasing statistical examination of spotlight / finder as causative.
To be certain, the mechanical drive in and of itself (be it seagate, WD, toshiba or hitachi) is playing no causative role in the corruption, no would it sensibly.
I have tried to induce failure on nearly 20 drives, both partitioned and fake TM backup redundant copies (without the use of WD software) and cannot replicate it, oddly, with use of Mavericks on a macbook Air and Mac Mini
petermac87
I would certainly uninstall any WD software you have installed.
That premise has been tested already many times, and is not a solution, .....alas
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