Will the fire wire western digital drive work on a new imac

I am now using 3 3 WD My Book Studio FireWire External Hard Drives on my older iMac. I am thinking of getting a new iMac and see that they do not have a firewire plug. Is there a way to use these drives with a new iMac?

bpf1947 wrote:
I am now using 3 3 WD My Book Studio FireWire External Hard Drives on my older iMac. I am thinking of getting a new iMac and see that they do not have a firewire plug. Is there a way to use these drives with a new iMac?
My configuration is:
>>> is a Thunderbolt cable connection
---> is a FW800 cable connection
Thunderbolt on iMac >>> Thunderbolt Drive 1 >>> Thunderbolt Drive 2 >>> Apple Thunderbolt to FW800 adapter ---> Nitro 8-Port FW800 Hub ---> 3 FW800 drives (I don't like chaining FW drives thus the hub).
The above configuration works like a champ. No problems at all.

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I am going to buy a hard drive (this one). I called up western digital, and they said it would work with all mac computers. But the guy from tech support didn't sound sure. I think i saw baby boomer say that WD drives hardly ever work (i could be wrong).

I've had a 2TB WD My Book USB drive on my iMac for over a year with no problems. Also I reformatted it for Mac Os Extended Journaled. The software from WD is not that great though and I thought I lost the drive when I mistakenly entered the wrong password to access the drive and WD had a recovery process.
However the next time I will buy a Seagate drive.

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Will one of the 1tb+ drives work in my X60?

you would need a 2.5 inch sata drive with 9.5 mm thickness, the max capacity you can get in that profile is 750 gigs. The 1 tb and anything larger are all 12.5 mm thick drive, and won't fit.
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Time machine backup fails; error creating folder. Western Digital drive requires password which is perhaps/likely the issue. I can't eliminate the password/encryption.

Time Machine backup fails on new WD external drive (My Passport Studio); error creating folder (after several hours of Time Machine apparently working).
Background: I purchased a Western Digital drive from an Apple Store to use for Time Machine backup. I followed the Western Digital instructions that came with the drive for Mac. I didn't get the Time Machine prompt which the instructions indicated I would receive--namely to select whether I want to encrypt my Time Macine backups. (I already have a Time Machine backup I use at another location, which is perhaps why I didn't receive a prompt.)
I decided to install the Western Digital utilities and security software that comes on the disk--with a view to potentially encrypting the disk (since I still wanted to have an encrypted backup since I was mobile). I forgot that (from experience 2-years previous) that I shouldn't install Western Digital software because it just makes life really complicated.
I tried several times to do a Time Machine backup with failures each time (error creating the backup folder). I tried to get help from WD but I don't think the technicians were following what my issue was. Potentially I was not helpful in explaining it. I deleted the WD applications from my system after the first contact with WD. However the problem persisted--I still had an encrypted hard drive. After three phone sessions with three different WD techs I still could not get a solution. (By the second call I was not at all interested in having an encrypted drive--I just wanted to format and restore the drive to an unencrypted state so that I could have SOME kind of Time Machine backup.)
I still don't have a solution--either to get Time Machine working with the WD encryption/password on the drive, or to remove the encryption so I can backup. Right now my options are to return the drive to the Apple Store -- or get a return authorization from WD. Seems crazy since the drive is fine and I have the working password.

Never install "helpful software" provided by WD and Seagate (or any HD mfg.)
All such stuff is fluff and nonsense that interferes with normal HD operation.
Always when you buy a new HD, format it for Mac and then use it to TM backup or clone a HD, or archive data.
Less is more on HD new out of box. A "blank brick", no fluff and cotton candy software

Mac Pro RAID Card and Western Digital drives

I'm having huge troubles with these items.
I first installed four WD7500AYYS (Raid Edition) to build a RAID 5 and install Leopard on it. At this point, one of the drives was probably DOA and didn't show up in the bay. I then reinstalled the Seagate that shipped with the machine, then proceeded to create another enhanced JBOD raid with one of the WD drives. After a couple of seconds, RAID utility reported an error (disk about to fail and such). I then tried with another one. The process ended with a kernel panic after two hours, while RAID utility was still marking the drive for enhanced JBOD. That disk never show up again, in any bay.
At this point, I'm left with two WD drives. I can't get past the creation of a RAID set with them, no matter what. Either RAID utility reports an error, or it says the disk has been ejected, or it keeps create the RAID for hours... The later usually ends with a "force quit", or a force shutdown. During these attemps, the RAID card went missing once, then it appeared again on the following reboot. The RAID battery, which was fully charged at first, is now being "repaired" (charging ?).
I then ran AHT to see whether there was something wrong. No errors reported.
Because all four drives were Raid Edition, I thought this could be the root of the problems. So I bought a Caviar SE16 (WD5000AAKS). To no avail. It fails too, in the very same way. And now it no longer appears in any bay.
The last step I took was to remove the RAID card (connecting the iPass connector to the motherboard). Out of the five WD drives, only two RE2 (the two that still show up with the RAID card) do appear in disk utility. But disk utility never ends "writing the partition map" or "preparing for initialization".
By now, I end up with five WD drives that appear to be just dead, as if they were killed by the RAID card trying to RAID them. The only drive that works, with or without the RAID card, in any bay, is the Seagate. I didn't try to fiddle with it though (I'm reluctant to format it just to see whether I can create an enhanced JBOD raid with it).
So the question is, are Western Digital drives compatible with this RAID card ? If they do, then how a RAID card can kill them in such a way while keeping the Seagate alive ?
I'm lost in conjectures. I don't even know if/how I can bring all the WD drives back to life. I'm not sure the RAID card is faulty, I've already lost a lot of time and money, I'm not willing to buy yet another drive to see it fail too, and my Mac Pro is kind of useless as I don't want to spend time on installing/configuring everything I need on a drive that is bound to be replaced by a larger RAID 5 array.
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Someone yesterday or Friday, had a system with 4 x 1TB drives and Pro RAID, but in their case, it was determined later Saturday that drive bay #1 was not functioning.
Hopefully these fully retail drives, not OEMs, and I would think they are fine. They are what I would use (Sonnet Tempo only supports RE of the WD drives). Someone else, Danish?, had 3 out of 4 WD drives were DOA.
I've never had trouble buying over a dozen from OWC, so it does seem odd.
If you have SoftRAID 3.6.6 I would use that to zero the first and last 100 sectors, or you can begin to zero the whole drive and cancel at any time, just to check the health of the drive and that it can zero and not produce I/O errors.
There are two other methods for accessing and managing Mac Pro RAID, ARD and CLI
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306231
Originally, only Apple drives were supported. My understanding was that this changed. But the only article I found in KB dates back to Aug '07:
Question: What drives does Apple support with the Mac Pro RAID Card and the Xserve RAID Card?
Answer: +Only Apple drives are supported with the Mac Pro RAID Card and the Xserve RAID Card.+
My understanding that 3rd party retail drives such as WD RE2 750GB, Seagate, Hitachi were supported as well since the article was written - and I can't find where I read that, but sure that I did, as this was discussed in the past.
I'd like to find an official article. Even my friend Google was helpless

System is looking for a Western Digital drive

I've had a Spotlight indexing problem that seems to be partially fixed but I see something in console under the system log that may be preventing Spotlight from finishing it's indexing.
Here's the reference:
Sep 17 11:28:57 Macintosh-2 WDDriveManagerStatusMenu[167]: *** attempt to pop an unknown autorelease pool (0x843400)
This is a reference to a Western Digital Drive...the drive was put in a new case.
I keep getting this error message in Console in the system log...Spotlight gets to within 30 secs of indexing, then keeps delaying it's completion. Could this error message be preventing the completion?

People used to get that Console message before WDDriveManager was updated for Snow Leopard. Back in 2009-2010, it was not compatible with Snow Leopard.
Do you have the latest updates installed for WDDriveManager?
Secondly, my understanding is that the main purpose of WDDriveManager is to enable functionality of lights and buttons on the WD hard drive case. However if you moved the drive to a new case, perhaps such functionality is no longer relevant or perhaps there is a conflict there (software looking for a certain type of HD case but can't find it?). In that case, you might consider removing or uninstalling WDDriveManager as it might no longer work with this new case you have.
Are you using Snow Leopard? (I assume so because that's this forum, but your post indicates 10.4). Do you have the latest version of WD software? What are you using the WD software for? Is your HD case compatible with WD's software?

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