WD Passport SmartWare Slows Computer to a Crawl

WD External Drives WD Portable Drives
2

… and just to clarify: the continuous access appears to because the software is always categorizing files. I don’t leave my computer on all the time. Is the power-up the trigger for this action?

I’m running a:

Dual-core 3Ghz AMD

4GB RAM

WD Caviar Blue Hardrive (WD3200AAKS SATA 3 Gb/s 7200RPM)

WIndows XP

1 Like