WD My Book Studio Edition II 2TB?
This product came with 3 software's.
- One for backup which I did not install, as I use Time Machine.
- Second "WD Turbo" drivers this also I did not install as WD website says drivers included in Mac OS X are the same as WD Turbo.
- Third "Drive Manager" this also I did not install as it is used only for setting up RAID & external label.
Currently when I connect my hdd, Mac detects it as a single 2 TB drive & I get speeds of upto 40 MB/ps using firewire 800.
1) Will installing any of the above s/w really improve the speed?
2) If I configure RAID 0 using WD drive manager, will I see increase in transfer speed?
3) After installing WD drive manager & setting up RAID 0, if I am not happy with the results can I completely un-install WD drive manager & remove the RAID config as well?
I also posted this on WD forum's:-
http://community.wdc.com/t5/External-Drives-for-Mac/My-Book-Studio-Edition-II-2- TB-software-s/td-p/16456
- One for backup which I did not install, as I use Time Machine.
- Second "WD Turbo" drivers this also I did not install as WD website says drivers included in Mac OS X are the same as WD Turbo.
- Third "Drive Manager" this also I did not install as it is used only for setting up RAID & external label.
Currently when I connect my hdd, Mac detects it as a single 2 TB drive & I get speeds of upto 40 MB/ps using firewire 800.
1) Will installing any of the above s/w really improve the speed?
2) If I configure RAID 0 using WD drive manager, will I see increase in transfer speed?
3) After installing WD drive manager & setting up RAID 0, if I am not happy with the results can I completely un-install WD drive manager & remove the RAID config as well?
I also posted this on WD forum's:-
http://community.wdc.com/t5/External-Drives-for-Mac/My-Book-Studio-Edition-II-2- TB-software-s/td-p/16456
15" MacBook Pro Late 2008, Mac OS X (10.6.3)