Western Digital - Smartware no Dumbware
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New ReviewerGot a new 1 TB Western Digital external hard drive, the My Book Essentials with Smartware. Smartware really $ucks It is painfully slow, hangs, crashes a lot & takes forever to switch tabs looong hour glass no way to verify if the backup is good.
This โSmartWareโ is Western Digitalโs attempt to introduce their backup
and security solution onto unsuspecting consumers. You know about it
because it is prominently advertised as a great new feature but you are
in for a rude awakening if you have no need for it and want to delete
it and claim back precious disk space. The software appears on your
desktop as a separate volume. Donโt want to use it or see it, letโs
just remove itโฆ whoops, itโs back, WTF is that about.
You have to run two separate apps that you can download from their
site. One is to update the driveโs firmware first and the second app
allows you to hide and unhide the volume. Backup and security software
is supposed to run silently in the background. It needs to stay out of
your way not jump in your face, are you listening Western Digital. This
is what happens when proprietary gear heads get locked together in a
dark room. A monkey with a Ouija board could have seen the backlash
with a bonehead decision like this. If there wasnโt a backlash why
would they provide software to hide the volume.
Funny how the marketing group decided to exclude this little tidbit of
information from consumers.
The software total junk - hope the drive is reliable, use windows back up
Location: Eglin Afb, Florida
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