The top model features a single 4TB drive and a USB3.0 interface to help speed up the process of filling it up. Blinking: connected to a charger but not charging, or when low on battery. It took two days to copy while HDD is in bottom up position. Western Digital has taken a more is better approach with its latest iteration of the WD My Book Essential HDD. Erick Camargo on Replace a hard drive on WD My Erick Camargo on Replace a hard drive on WD My mosi on Unbrick ASUS MeMO Pad 7 (ME170 MAD MAX on Replace a hard. Copied those using Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier.
I copied all the needed files, except two that failed reading at 95% due to bad sectors. The drive was detected and showed in Windows. Holding in this position, I connected the data cable, opened the Device Manager and performed a Scan for HW changes. Surprisingly, the gravitational force made the trick with the heads! The HDD started spinning without clicking. I thought of opening and inspecting the heads and platters (drive has no critical data on it), pulled the HDD out and while holding it bottom up connected it to the power. Could be heads calibration issue or a damaged Service Area that stores manufacture data required for HDD operation. My HDD never fell, nor got a physical damage.
#Steady blinking light wd my book 3tb portable#
Drive like My Book comes with the external power adapter and portable drives uses the power from the USB port. The desktop drives are not for traveling comparative the portable drives can be carried anywhere easily. A guy from recovery services said, if it's spinning, 99.9% it's not the PCB. A: Answer Hi Ross, there are few differences between the external desktop drives and external portable drives. Removing the data cable as WD suggest didn't help. My oldest WD internal drive is 14 yo and all of a sudden it started clicking loudly and shutdown itself after 30sec. Notify them of the problem and the drive will be replaced. Just get onto the WD website and log into the my support section. So for anyone whom does have a backup (and anything important should be backed up) then this is the best way to fix the problem. WD replaced the drives within a few days of me notifying them of the problem as well. Anyway luckily both of effected drives where still under warranty when it happened and both where backed up onto other copies. On a side note I sync the backups using a program called Cronosync which syncs all new and updated files automatically at the click of a button. In the past six months I've had this happen twice so I am thankful that I always keep backups of everything. I have been using WD drives since 2012 and I now have 24 drives in total.
#Steady blinking light wd my book 3tb full#
When all three drives are full I send the third drive back to my home country of Australia in case something happens to my drives in Vietnam.
I travel regularly for work so I keep three copies of every drive so that I can travel with two drives and leave one behind in case I get robbed while I am travelling. I have a lot of WD drives, I'm a Vietnam based photographer and I use them to store my work on.
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