https://news.hitb.org/index.php/ en https://news.hitb.org/index.php/content/western-digital-external-hard-drives-experiencing-data-loss-os-x-mavericks <article data-history-node-id="48402" role="article" class="node article teaser clearfix UTF-8"> <header> <h2 class="title text-center"><a href="/index.php/content/western-digital-external-hard-drives-experiencing-data-loss-os-x-mavericks" rel="bookmark"><span>Western Digital External Hard Drives Experiencing Data Loss On OS X Mavericks</span> </a></h2> <div class="meta submit clearfix"> <div class="date text-right"> <span class="lowercase">posted on</span>November 5, 2013 </div> <div class="author"> <span class="lowercase">by</span> <span><span>l33tdawg</span></span> </div> </div> </header> <div class="image-default"> <div> <a href="/index.php/content/western-digital-external-hard-drives-experiencing-data-loss-os-x-mavericks" hreflang="en"><img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/field/image/western_digital_my_book-1024x1024-640x640.jpg?itok=7zE_J7Jx" width="220" height="220" alt="http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/western_digital_my_book-1024x1024-640x640.jpg" title="Credit: Cult of Mac" /> </a> </div> <div class="image-credit"> <strong>Credit:</strong> <a href="http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/western_digital_my_book-1024x1024-640x640.jpg" target="_blank">http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/western_digital_my_book-1024x1024-640x640.jpg</a> </div> </div> <div class="content"> <div><p>Western Digital has been emailing customers and warning them about hard drives “experiencing data loss when updating to Apple’s OS X Mavericks.” The problem seems to effect multiple kinds of drives, including the company’s popular MyBook lineup.</p> <p>According to Western Digital, the incompatibility with Mavericks isn’t a hardware-level issue, but something to do with the software that is shipped with the drives it sells.</p></div> </div> <div class="meta link clearfix"> <div class="comment"> <span class="lowercase">no</span>comment </div> <div class="share text-center show-for-medium"> <span class="a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_16 addtoany_list" data-a2a-url="https://news.hitb.org/index.php/content/western-digital-external-hard-drives-experiencing-data-loss-os-x-mavericks" data-a2a-title="Western Digital External Hard Drives Experiencing Data Loss On OS X Mavericks"><a class="a2a_button_facebook"><span class="fa fa-facebook"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_twitter"><span class="fa fa-twitter"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_linkedin"><span class="fa fa-linkedin"></span></a><a class="a2a_button_email"><span class="fa fa-envelope"></span></a></span> </div> <div class="read-more"><a href="/index.php/content/western-digital-external-hard-drives-experiencing-data-loss-os-x-mavericks"><span class="lowercase">&#8594;</span>READ MORE</a></div> </div> </article> Tue, 05 Nov 2013 00:57:28 +0000 l33tdawg 48402 at https://news.hitb.org