I purchased a 1 TB Western Digital My Book firewire external drive last year as a backup to my new iMac. After a number of odd issues associated with physically turning the thing on and off. More recently, I kept getting messages from my computer that one of the external peripherals was disconnected incorrectly. I ignored it because, occasionally, my cat will bump something and temporarily affect the connection. Now I think it was the drive failing. It has finally come to the point where, when the power supply is plugged in, I can feel the housing vibrating, presumably the drive spinning, but I can't actually get it to turn on (the computer does not "see" it either). After a few minutes on the phone with Western Digital, I was told that they would ship me a new one, no question or arguments. I'm going to take possession of a new drive but I think I'm also going to purchase another backup hard drive from a different manufacturer. Anybody else have any trouble with one of these?






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