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WD My Book Essential 3TB USB 3.0 and NV+ v2
I naively bought a WD My Book Essential 3TB USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) for use as a backup drive for my NV+ v2 (with 3 x 3TB WD drives inside), having used a number of different USB 2.0 drives in th...
dsm1212 wrote: Hmm. Maybe this is a kernel bug. Looks like there is a usb3.0 patch for 2.6.39 that might be relevant. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/647973. Reading this it sounds like there are really two symptoms: 1) won't mount OR 2) if you do get it mounted performance could be very poor. Good luck getting it out of Netgear :-(. Probably easier to return the WD and buy a different model if you still can.
steve
Hmm, I was thinking of buying a 3TB WD RED/Green and a USB 3 Enclosure, surely that should work?
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