A:AnswerNone of these answers are correct.
This is a "feature" of a lot of non-helium filled large capacity drives. It's a firmware feature meant to increase the life and reliability of the drive. WD has specifically answered this question. Your drive is fine. It's just incredibly annoying if everything else is quiet all the time.
A:AnswerFirst off, sorry that this happened. I would have thought with all sorts of warranties, WD would have made good especially after only a short time that you had the drive. Well I had a similar situation happen to me and I had to seek professional assistance with my whole life nearly gone on a hard drive. If your memories are as precious to you as they are to me then I will recommend a company that gave me my life back. It’s going to cost you some major money but it’s worth it and a lesson learned. The company is called Ontrack Data Recovery located in NJ. Formerly Kroll ontrack https://www.ontrack.com/rutherford-data-recovery-experts/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=physical-location&utm_campaign=USA0002. The amount you pay depends on the severity of what they need to do to get you up and running again. With me They had to extract the platters and the info on them transferred to another ext hard drive. The original drive wouldn’t comply. Which I knew ahead of time, but if they could’ve gotten the original drive to work, it wouldn’t have cost me as much. Now the lesson learned here is to - BACKUP YOUR EXTERNAL DRIVE(S) WITH ANOTHER BACKUP(S). In other words BACKUP YOUR BACKUPS, TOO !!! GOOD LUCK TO YOU !
A:AnswerIt will but you will need to format it first in xp. See my other answer here on using with xp for details. I have the larger 10TB drive working in xp. :)
A:AnswerI have tested these drives internally and externally with numerous USB, USB C, and Active Thunderbolt cables. With all I get roughly the same speed which is about 200 MB/s. That speed was even consistent using a SATA cable and having the drive internal to the PC.
A:AnswerXp is a windows operating system and so are windows 7 or 8 or 10 they are all windows operating system and they normally use NTFS format. If you do NTFS you can use the drive among all windows operating system.....now if you own a Mac and a Windows and want to use the same drive you might have to use third party software to use either NTSF or HSF+ (you have to pick one and find the third party app to use on the off format pc)....
A:AnswerI have this connected to the USB 3.0 port on my router and have copied files to and from this device. It has a built in FTP and Media Center. Which work GREAT. I have a Linksys 1200 series router.
