Will western digital drive work?????????

      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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