Yosemite: Western Digital External Drives fully supported?

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Yosemite: Western Digital External Drives fully supported?

I use a Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II 2TB via FireWire as my TimeMachine backup drive. I still run Mavericks on my iMac 27" 2012 model (Core i5, 2.9 Ghz, 8GB Ram, 1TB Fusion drive).

It had no problems with Mavericks since I updated to wd drive manager 3.1.0.14, which had been released after reports of data loss with WD Drives. There is still no update from WD for Yosemite. I hesitate to update to Yosemite since I found this post: http://community.wd.com/t5/External-Drives-for-Mac/WD-4T-MyBook-studio-II-extrem ely-slow/td-p/815385. Did anyone try it?

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Core i5, 2.9 Ghz, 8 GB Ram, 1 TB FD

Posted on Nov 3, 2014 8:33 AM

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Nov 9, 2014 12:41 AM in response to gehnichinorg

There is a similar query here. http://community.wd.com/t5/External-Drives-for-Mac/WD-My-Passport-for-Mac-1TB-an d-OS-X-Yosemite/td-p/811837

Initial reports do not look good 😟

This had got to be one of the most debilitating bugs ever, particularly for users like me with an Air who rely on external HDDs for the majority of storage.

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