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WDDriveService.exe
WDDriveService.exe by Western Digital Technologies (Signed)
| Version: | 2.0.0.16 |
| MD5: | 2cf2b85baa9a4cb83ce6f4f85be4d0f4 |
| SHA1: | 3480393189cddddef3b15dfd9750725f853165cb |
| SHA256: | 63c02c07f99a3ffdfae03dbcd72423aaa07a6450ae883b339ec2349e772d87b0 |
Overview
wddriveservice.exe runs as a service under the name WDDriveService (WDDriveService) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The file is digitally signed by Western Digital Technologies which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | wddriveservice.exe |
| Publisher: | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. |
| Product name: | WDDriveService.exe |
| Description: | WD Drive Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\western digital\wd drive manager\wddriveservice.exe |
| File version: | 2.0.0.16 |
| Size: | 263.86 KB (270,192 bytes) |
| Build date: | 6/19/2013 6:20 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Western Digital Technologies |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Monday, October 11, 2010 |
| Expiration date: | Friday, September 20, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- WDDriveService
- 'WDDriveService' (WD Drive Manager)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00016610% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00009310% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00007300% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 38,465 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 13,237,379/sec | |
| Context switches: | 16/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 10.28 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 12.29 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 8.41 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 10.28 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 79.32 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 82.55 MB | |
| Working set: | 11.49 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 14.65 MB | |
| Page faults: | 542,390/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 26.69 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1,420/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 53.14 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 466/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 19 | |
| Handles: | 303 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\western digital\wd drive manager\wddriveservice.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | WDDriveService |
| Display name: | WDDriveService |
| Description: | “Provides discovery of WD Drives” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| wow64.dll (Win32 Emulation on NT64 by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.06325685% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01611173% | |
| User CPU: | 0.04714512% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,698,354/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| WDDriveService.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.02139535% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00345772% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01793763% | |
| CPU cycles: | 859,656/sec | |
| Memory: | 860 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.01503589% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00592703% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00910886% | |
| CPU cycles: | 336,089/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
24.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
16.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
12.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
12.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
12.00% |
|
| Windows 8 |
8.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Enterprise |
8.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
4.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
4.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 45.83% of WDDriveService.exe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
25.81% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
22.58% |
|
| Toshiba |
19.35% |
|
| Acer |
16.13% |
|
| Lenovo |
12.90% |
|
| American Megatrends |
3.23% |
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