![]() Only their MyBook/My Passport lines have it. Their "Elements" line does not have this issue. Just some kind of warning in small print would have been nice, but no. This pissed me off, not just because it couldn't be removed, but because this wasn't posted anywhere on the box. Best of all, the freaking software takes up over a gigabyte of space, which I know isn't much when we're talking 1TB, but still. And worse, there's no real way to "disable" it either, not without installing some software which only hides the SmartWare stuff from showing up, but even then it still loads when connected. Updating to the latest firmware does nothing, and WD pretty much has no plans to allow any way of completely disabling the software. Meaning if you were to remove the stock drive that it came with and replace it with a bare WD drive, it wouldn't even run because the controller on the case itself looks for that firmware on the drive. It's not on some partition that you can remove, it's built into the firmware of the drive itself. After a lot of research, no it can't be removed in any way. ![]() ![]() I was one of the suckers who bought a WD MyBook that had that crap preinstalled.
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