Thank god for this post! I thought my computer needed to be reimaged and was transferring all software to new PC as I type. I had installed the WD “Smart” ware on the pc over a year ago but never did backups and havent actually had the external drive hooked up to that computer for over a year, yet the WD software was running continuously using between 50-90% of my CPU and huge amounts of memory.
Its obvious WD doesnt care about fixing this. Uninstalled the software. Computer works fine now.
Never buying another WD device again.
Thanks to everyone who posted and thanks for nothing WD.
