Just a heads-up, I offered 200 with a 48 hour window, they accepted with just a few hours remaining. Excited to pop it into my system, as I've been running on empty these last few months (256GB M550, 1TB WD Black, both damn near full). Should be a very very nice boost for my steam library, going from the spinner to this. [EDIT]: Should clarify, I used the link Samir provided in their post, that's where I offered the 200.
In my research before buying, here's a helpful post on driver revisions and firmware to pair with the driver -
https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...-2tb-reference-page.11287/page-15#post-242862
The only thing about that post (if you could clarify acquacow), the current revision on the WD website is listed as 3.2.15.1699 with firmware 3.2.11-20150618, which don't appear as a pair in the above list. The list has
VSL 3.2.16 - Firmware 7.1.17.116786
as the most current. Am I missing something? I'm guessing I derp'd out somewhere, or the naming scheme has possibly changed.
Here's a link to where you're going to need to go to grab drivers (if I'm not mistaken) -
Home
Click Product Downloads, Log in, Click Downloads. On the drop down menu on the left choose ioScale, Windows (assuming you're on windows), Current Release (which is 3.2.15 in my list). Select both the Firmware Update and Binary (they need to be used as a pair, per the first link).
Until I get the drive, that's as far as I can guide anyone else, but I'm assuming it's as simple as chucking the drive in the PC, installing the binary, updating the firmware, then restarting the computer. If you want a fancy pants GUI, I think you need ioSphere as well, but I'm not about that life