I just ordered an 8TB 256MB Purple from Amazon and the HDD does not show up in the WD Dashboard tool.
I also noticed in the Device Manager it shows as 2 instances of jMicron rather than my other WD Red Drives that start with WDC.
Hi @ejt,
A WD Purple is a surveillance drive, with that we want to verify the drive itself is working and free from defects. We would suggest installing the drive in a Windows computer as a secondary drive and testing using WD Dashboard.
Title: Western Digital Dashboard
Link: Testing a drive for problems using Western Digital Dashboard
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