I have a 4Tb My Passport Ultra and the LED always blinking even there is no activity. Even when I uncounted from the computer, the LED keeps on blinking. Even worse, the drive is spinning !
The only way to stop the LED blink or Spinning is to unplug the drive from Computer.
Anyone can help ?
Hi @ew88hfc,
Please test the health of your drive using the Western Digital Drive utility:
Title: Setting up and using WD Drive Utilities
Link: How to Install and Use WD Security and WD Drive Utilities Features
Hi,
I have tested and the results showed that the drive is OK. However, don’t understand why the drive spinning all the time and LED continue blinking. Worry that the life of the drive will be shortened as it is spinning all the time even no activity of the drive !
Drives of other brands don’t have this issues !
Hello all,
I had the same issue for one of my WD Passport Ultra drives. One of second hand in the “for Mac” flavor that I had received totally blank: reformatted in NTFS and without any password set.
So the LED was always blinking and the drive looked to be always spinning as I could feel a continuous trembling at touch. This behavior was confirmed with another USB cable and another PC and even an iPad. So it was not an specific Apple design incompatibility with the Windows world.
All WD health tests gave good results. What I did at last and that partially worked was to (re)install an access password: after having set a password up, the LED has stopped to continuously blink but the drive still trembles all the time. I had checked there was no inactivity timeout set by default but setting it to any value did not prevent the drive to stop trembling at rest once timeout expired. I do know the the drive is actually spinning as this continuous tremble stops for my other My Passport Ultra drives once their inactivity timeout epxires. I will live with that, hoping this continuous spinning will not wear my drive out faster.
