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WDDriveService.exe
WDDriveService.exe by Western Digital Technologies (Signed)
| Version: | 1.6.0.6 |
| MD5: | 2277cd5b13b18b6df5f80e8a84254ea7 |
| SHA1: | 464bf5f224e5fcd04a840294f8e1aeae4446fb4a |
| SHA256: | 7d1df15a1171ff3415e5f94ec11b4003d1b4bd170dde419133cf6f87515f2715 |
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 |
| Product name: | WDDriveService.exe |
| Description: | WD Drive Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\western digital\wd drive manager\wddriveservice.exe |
| File version: | 1.6.0.6 |
| Size: | 242.43 KB (248,248 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Western Digital Technologies |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Friday, December 10, 2010 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| 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: | 0.00011438% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00005647% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00005791% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 229,249 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 15,929,791/sec | |
| Context switches: | 114/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 10.64 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 15.07 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 7.83 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 10.64 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 85.86 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 93.55 MB | |
| Working set: | 11.27 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 16.25 MB | |
| Page faults: | 29,365,006/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 111.49 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 5,742/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 116.78 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 2,032/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 19 | |
| Handles: | 337 | |
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 |
| Total CPU: | 0.13809696% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.05742066% | |
| User CPU: | 0.08067630% | |
| CPU cycles: | 7,424,678/sec | |
| Context switches: | 28/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| ole32.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.04090714% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01259840% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02830875% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,154,003/sec | |
| Context switches: | 3/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.36 MB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.02293224% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01224859% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01068365% | |
| CPU cycles: | 155,530/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.23 MB | |
| WDDriveService.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00696966% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00335565% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00361401% | |
| CPU cycles: | 580,251/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory: | 816 KB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
34.78% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
26.09% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
13.04% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
8.70% |
|
| Windows 8 |
8.70% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
8.70% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 65.22% of WDDriveService.exe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
40.00% |
|
| Acer |
16.00% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
16.00% |
|
| Dell |
16.00% |
|
| Sony |
8.00% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
4.00% |
|
