Western Digital (WDFME.exe) Solution?

After some Googling of WDFME.exe I found that this is a Western Digital software pertaining to backups. When the service is running, it can consume an enormous amount of CPU and RAM. Lots of complaints. For me it was a lot. Actually enough to stall Macrium when creating an image. Sad to say I did not find any solutions to the WDFME issue other than stopping the service, which is not a permanent solution. It seems if you want to do backups and have a WD hard drive, you just have to put up with it. This also causes slow performance when using the computer.

Has anyone heard of a solution to this other than going Seagate? I'm still going to search but I thought someone here may have already been down this road.

So it is software that comes with external WD hard drives that you use to back up with?

If removed it won't effect the WD hdd in the PC?

I have searched some more about this. The (WDFME.exe) is from the Western Digital Smartware that is used to backup the PC to a Western Digital external HDD. Most people have uninstalled it due to it is a resource hog and causes problems with the normal operation of the PC. I have chosen to uninstall it and use a third party backup solution since WD does not have a solution.