I can now see both my external drives, older Studio II and new Duo, on my Desktop. WD Drive Utilities looks a lot like the app that I dragged onto my Desktop from the Duo before reformatting it as HFS+. Opened WD Drive Utilities and wow! I now have RAID Management too, amongst other things. However I did find ‘WD Drive Utilities 2.0.5.18’ instead. Ran WD Drive Manager Installer once again. Searching for WD Drive Manager again it still doesn’t show in my Menu bar. The Studio II responded immediately (full white bar on the from) before I could even get behind my Mac to start it up. I’ve taken the plunge and, instead of waiting until I had got the new drive up and running until it did what I intended it to do, I have jumped the gun and plugged my Studio II into the back of the new Duo using the USB 2 cable that previously went into the back of my Mac. If I am likely to need it, may I download it from this web site? Or perhaps if one of the drives fails and I need to install a replacement? WD Drive Manager let me see the serial numbers of both the internal physical drives. For instance, if I need to do any maintenance/repairs to the Studio II because that is what I used to set up the RAID.

Okay, it may turn out to be no great deal but I wonder if this has anything to do with MacOS 10.6 El Capitan? I also wonder if I may need WD Drive Manager at some point in the future. WD Drive Manager seems to have been deleted somehow. I searched my iMac but I have only found the WD Drive Manager Uninstaller.

Recently I discovered that the WD Drive Manager icon in my Menu bar was missing. I used the proprietory ‘WD Drive Manager’ to configure the drive as a 1TB RAID 1 mirrored device.Įvery now and then I would use WD Drive Manager to check the HDD status. In 2010 I bought myself a 2TB My Book Studio II external hard drive to hold my Time Machine backup.

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