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Anyone have a Western Digital Hard Drive?

July 12, 2012 9:41:58 AM from JoeUser ForumsJoeUser Forums

 

No. I didn’t win one. Even if I did, no one would get it.

BUT: Just found something interesting. Everyone with a WD-HDD can download and use the special edition Acronis-WD. It only works with WD HDD’s, though. Comes with a guide, too.

You can get it here:  http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119

Supports XP, Vista and W7.

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Reply #1 July 12, 2012 9:45:53 AM
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Very nice find, Doc. I'm using a WD640 GB main HDD and a 320GB external to back up on.

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Reply #2 July 12, 2012 9:58:11 AM
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Free is good. Sometimes.

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Reply #3 July 12, 2012 10:44:39 AM
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WOW !! Awsome, I have 2 WD's ....a 500 Gig and a 1 Terabyte. I've always had great performance with WD. Thanks Doc !! 

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Reply #4 July 12, 2012 11:11:27 AM
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Welcome, Ace... I only have one, but hey... free is free!

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Reply #5 July 12, 2012 2:53:08 PM
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Apart from the SSD, all my internal drives are WD, as are 3 my external ones... the Seagates are 'community' and contain all the videos of the extended family that I edit/convert for them.  However, I do have Acronis 2009, which I will update with the next edition, but mrs starkers also has 3 internal WD's and I'm sure she would appreciate checking out this version to if she wants Acronis to safeguard her data.

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Reply #6 July 12, 2012 4:41:54 PM
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darn, I have a hitachi internal and that's the slowest part of my system, be really nice to just copy everything over to a new hard drive.

my external is WD but...

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Reply #7 July 12, 2012 4:52:58 PM
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I think it's only for Internal HD's, Greg.

Seagate has backup software for their disks, I believe... 

For SSD's (and SMART won't accurately predict 'demise'), EaseUS backup software is free and maybe the beat, but for an image, you'll need an additional tool from their site.

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Reply #8 July 12, 2012 6:38:40 PM
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I have 3 internals and 4 externals.

Nice find Doc...I'll be sure to put it to use.

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Reply #9 July 13, 2012 4:45:23 PM
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Boogers. Mine is an external HDD, 1 TB. Oh well.

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Reply #10 July 16, 2012 7:46:51 PM
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Interesting.

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Reply #11 July 19, 2012 7:12:22 PM
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Very cool, I only use WD drives. All caviar black, 1 TB - 600 GB - 300 GB from less than a year old to 5 years old and all still running great.

 

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Reply #12 July 19, 2012 9:24:29 PM
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Quoting Uvah,
reply 9
Boogers. Mine is an external HDD, 1 TB. Oh well.

That's okay, matey, Acronis backs up to external drives.  I have a 1tb WD USB3 that I use for backups of backups.

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Reply #13 July 19, 2012 9:48:38 PM
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Yep. Acronis should do it for you... the WD version as well. The software has to be on an internal WD HDD, but backup to anywhere.

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Reply #14 July 23, 2012 9:11:11 AM
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I have a half dozen external drives (they seem to collect all over the place).  Probably a couple are WDs.  Will check this out.

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