Hi all, I have had this post below sent to me and I would like to see if any of you could put this in plain English for me:Blushing: As I am still learning and the person who wrote it is rather rude! So I thought I would come where all the friendly people are or help
Cheers wemac
I'm sure most of the bugs and irritating problems will get sorted out eventually. After all, this is version 0 of a major software update, with most of the changes taking place 'under the hood' for speed and battery life improvements.
I have to say that I find that Ted Landau article totally complacent and lazy, as there is a VERY serious problem with data loss on external Western Digital (WD) and others when Mavericks is installed. WD has emailed everyone they have records of to tell them to uninstall it (whilst simultaneously removing from their website so you can't download the uninstaller!)
It seems that the WD software (The WD Drive Manager, WD Raid Manager, and WD SmartWare software) is probably the cause of many individuals and companies losing Tb's of data and backups. If the software is installed, and you need to install the WD RAID Manager to change a WD Studio II drive from RAID 0 to RAID 1 (mirrored), then as soon as you upgrade to mavericks you run a very real risk of your data being wiped from your external drives.
So, if you have the WD software installed and you upgrade to Mavericks, your external WD drive could get wiped anytime in the next few days. Not only branded WD drives are at risk, as reports on the Apple Support Forum, the WD support Forum and other places of G-TECH (Hitachi, who are owned by WD) LaCie, Promise RAID and even Seagate drives being wiped have been coming in since Mavericks Golden Master (GM) was issued nearly five weeks ago. It may also be affecting bare WD drives in external cases with other branding on them, as WD is one of the two companies that still make the hard drive mechanisms.
Picture someone who does everything correctly and by the book.
They take a clone of their previous boot drive setup onto an external drive so that if anything goes wrong they can simply clone it back over the new installation.
They use an external drive, possibly even a RAID 1 unit for backup using Time Machine.
They might use another external drive (or another internal WD drive in a Mac Pro) to hold their data, their iTunes Library and/or their iPhoto library.
If they use WD or some other external drives and upgrade this system to Mavericks they could lose ALL their data and backups, and despite the soothing words from WD support and lazy 'journalists' like Mr Landau, the chances are that only data recovery will get the data back. Data recovery software usually get the data back, but the file names will all be deleted, as well as the folder structure, leaving you with a complete mess.
And WD have known about this for WEEKS! Hundreds of people including professional photographers with Tb's of critical data, have had the data wiped from their drives.
A PR disaster for WD and, I'm afraid, Apple.
Cheers wemac
I'm sure most of the bugs and irritating problems will get sorted out eventually. After all, this is version 0 of a major software update, with most of the changes taking place 'under the hood' for speed and battery life improvements.
I have to say that I find that Ted Landau article totally complacent and lazy, as there is a VERY serious problem with data loss on external Western Digital (WD) and others when Mavericks is installed. WD has emailed everyone they have records of to tell them to uninstall it (whilst simultaneously removing from their website so you can't download the uninstaller!)
It seems that the WD software (The WD Drive Manager, WD Raid Manager, and WD SmartWare software) is probably the cause of many individuals and companies losing Tb's of data and backups. If the software is installed, and you need to install the WD RAID Manager to change a WD Studio II drive from RAID 0 to RAID 1 (mirrored), then as soon as you upgrade to mavericks you run a very real risk of your data being wiped from your external drives.
So, if you have the WD software installed and you upgrade to Mavericks, your external WD drive could get wiped anytime in the next few days. Not only branded WD drives are at risk, as reports on the Apple Support Forum, the WD support Forum and other places of G-TECH (Hitachi, who are owned by WD) LaCie, Promise RAID and even Seagate drives being wiped have been coming in since Mavericks Golden Master (GM) was issued nearly five weeks ago. It may also be affecting bare WD drives in external cases with other branding on them, as WD is one of the two companies that still make the hard drive mechanisms.
Picture someone who does everything correctly and by the book.
They take a clone of their previous boot drive setup onto an external drive so that if anything goes wrong they can simply clone it back over the new installation.
They use an external drive, possibly even a RAID 1 unit for backup using Time Machine.
They might use another external drive (or another internal WD drive in a Mac Pro) to hold their data, their iTunes Library and/or their iPhoto library.
If they use WD or some other external drives and upgrade this system to Mavericks they could lose ALL their data and backups, and despite the soothing words from WD support and lazy 'journalists' like Mr Landau, the chances are that only data recovery will get the data back. Data recovery software usually get the data back, but the file names will all be deleted, as well as the folder structure, leaving you with a complete mess.
And WD have known about this for WEEKS! Hundreds of people including professional photographers with Tb's of critical data, have had the data wiped from their drives.
A PR disaster for WD and, I'm afraid, Apple.
