I have a 4TB Western Digital Red Plus (WD40EFPX) hard disk drive. I use it in an external drive dock. The dock’s USB cable is easily connected to any computer with a USB port.
I have not used this drive recently. I would like to know when the HDD was last accessed. If it was last acccessed recently, then it would have been accessed by someone other than me.
Drive access data stored in Windows would of course be unhelpful: if someone connected the HDD to some other computer, my Windows system would not be involved.
I am asking whether the drive itself stores access data (e.g., time last accessed) in a place or form that I can review after the fact.
Hi @raywood
Have you opened a Support Case? If not opened, for more information, please contact the WD Technical Support team for the best assistance and troubleshooting:
“The time stamp of the drive unfortunately cannot be accessed as it is not connected to any network, it is a simple plug in and can be used drive. If someone would have accessed the drive, it cannot be detected or the time stamp when the drive was accessed cannot be detected.”
Conceivably someone could rig up an autoexecuting file that would run whenever the drive was accessed, perhaps like a bit of malware, and it could log drive access and usage data in a hidden folder. But I’m not presently aware of anything along those lines.
