So after a year, my WD MyBook failed. It has been studdering over the past few months, but I figured that it was no big deal, really. Today Finder nearly crashed trying to access the disk. A reformat did nothing to help it.
It’s a 500GB USB model, purchased in July of 2007. Just over a year old.
I’m quite surprised at the low quality of Western Digital’s external models, since I’ve never had an internal WD drive fail, at all.
Of course, if I would have simply Googled “WD mybook sucks” I would’ve found out about the mediocre quality of the Mybook series.
At least it wasn’t a mission critial drive, just being used as a Time Machine backup. I popped in a new-ish external WD disk, and the backup was done in a matter of minutes. I highly reccomend running Time Machine on an internal disk if you can, it backs up faster and uses less CPU while doing so.
