Fimrware Updates Precautions

Today a new update was released and already people are haveing problems. First if it ain’t broke don’t fix it is frequently good advice. Try waiting and see how it works out before trying. Second before you update a drive make sure you have the data safe at another location incase of a problem.

Joe

Actually the New Update that was released was for the Wd Smartware backup software , as stated in previous postes of Bill , So the wd smartware update wont cause the drive to erase the data or anything like that ,

so updating the smartware or no is not a problem…

However the software update on the website normally suggests to update the Firmware first. If we only do the software update, it wont delete anything, but if the Firmware is done and something goes ill, it could damage the drive entirely and all information would be lost. So the recommendation to backup the data is a valid precaussion. I know I usually do it if I need to do any important update like a Firmware update =)