Access files on the go or quickly sync your phone to your computer with this Western Digital My Cloud Home external Hdd. The 4TB of storage in this Hdd, 64Mb cache, white color and fast rpm speeds offer effortless use, and the WD hard drive even allows private accounts for different users. Connects via USB 3.0 or USB 2.0. Plugs into your wireless router for simple connection. 64Mb cache size provides ultra-fast processing speeds. 5400 rpm speed works quickly. Compatible with PCs and Macs. Works with Windows 7/8/8.1/10, Mac OS Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite or Maverick, i OS 9 and 10 and Android Kit Kat (4.4), Lollipop, Marshmallow or Nougat. Allows mobile access to your files via the My Cloud Home app. File search helps you quickly find the file you're looking for. Automatically backs up photos and video on your phone or other files on your computer. Lets you create multiple, private accounts for each member of your family or team. Backed by the manufacturer's 2-year limited warranty. My Cloud Home external hard drive contains 4TB of storage.
Access files on the go or quickly sync your phone to your computer with this Western Digital My Cloud Home external Hdd. The 4TB of storage in this Hdd, 64Mb cache, white color and fast rpm speeds offer effortless use, and the WD hard drive even allows private accounts for different users. Connects via USB 3.0 or USB 2.0. Plugs into your wireless router for simple connection. 64Mb cache size provides ultra-fast processing speeds. 5400 rpm speed works quickly. Compatible with PCs and Macs. Works with Windows 7/8/8.1/10, Mac OS Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite or Maverick, i OS 9 and 10 and Android Kit Kat (4.4), Lollipop, Marshmallow or Nougat. Allows mobile access to your files via the My Cloud Home app. File search helps you quickly find the file you're looking for. Automatically backs up photos and video on your phone or other files on your computer. Lets you create multiple, private accounts for each member of your family or team. Backed by the manufacturer's 2-year limited warranty. My Cloud Home external hard drive contains 4TB of storage.
WD 4TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud Storage (WDBVXC0040HWT-NESN)
Access files on the go or quickly sync your phone to your computer with this Western Digital My Cloud Home external Hdd. The 4TB of storage in this Hdd, 64Mb cache, white color and fast rpm speeds offer effortless use, and the WD hard drive even allows private accounts for different users. Connects via USB 3.0 or USB 2.0. Plugs into your wireless router for simple connection. 64Mb cache size provides ultra-fast processing speeds. 5400 rpm speed works quickly. Compatible with PCs and Macs. Works with Windows 7/8/8.1/10, Mac OS Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite or Maverick, i OS 9 and 10 and Android Kit Kat (4.4), Lollipop, Marshmallow or Nougat. Allows mobile access to your files via the My Cloud Home app. File search helps you quickly find the file you're looking for. Automatically backs up photos and video on your phone or other files on your computer. Lets you create multiple, private accounts for each member of your family or team. Backed by the manufacturer's 2-year limited warranty. My Cloud Home external hard drive contains 4TB of storage.
Access files on the go or quickly sync your phone to your computer with this Western Digital My Cloud Home external Hdd. The 4TB of storage in this Hdd, 64Mb cache, white color and fast rpm speeds offer effortless use, and the WD hard drive even allows private accounts for different users. Connects via USB 3.0 or USB 2.0. Plugs into your wireless router for simple connection. 64Mb cache size provides ultra-fast processing speeds. 5400 rpm speed works quickly. Compatible with PCs and Macs. Works with Windows 7/8/8.1/10, Mac OS Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite or Maverick, i OS 9 and 10 and Android Kit Kat (4.4), Lollipop, Marshmallow or Nougat. Allows mobile access to your files via the My Cloud Home app. File search helps you quickly find the file you're looking for. Automatically backs up photos and video on your phone or other files on your computer. Lets you create multiple, private accounts for each member of your family or team. Backed by the manufacturer's 2-year limited warranty. My Cloud Home external hard drive contains 4TB of storage.
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Don't buy WD My could home, get a simple external HD for your BKP's please read below For what is proposed I'll give it 1* see my reasons and think twice before you buy it. 1. too expensive what it offers 2. the available apps are far too complicated for beginners 3. they just won't support desktop app support, meaning you will use it as a regular external device which costs 1/3 of the price. 4. the mobile apps do not sync your photos in time and you have to open the app and synch it yourself, like today I opened it and there were 2k photos and videos to upload 5. it does not preserve the original dates of your videos and photos making it impossible to organize, which means you have a messed storage with 2000 photos and videos from different dates all uploaded in a ... MoreDon't buy WD My could home, get a simple external HD for your BKP's please read below For what is proposed I'll give it 1* see my reasons and think twice before you buy it. 1. too expensive what it offers 2. the available apps are far too complicated for beginners 3. they just won't support desktop app support, meaning you will use it as a regular external device which costs 1/3 of the price. 4. the mobile apps do not sync your photos in time and you have to open the app and synch it yourself, like today I opened it and there were 2k photos and videos to upload 5. it does not preserve the original dates of your videos and photos making it impossible to organize, which means you have a messed storage with 2000 photos and videos from different dates all uploaded in a single day. 6. even people with knowledge of mobile phones or windows won't be able to easily find their photos in the right order they were taken. 7. did I already say it's too slow to upload the photos finally, the only good thing is that you don't need to connect a USB cable, the wifi or network allows you to do it, so does it worth paying that much to just be able to connect to wifi/networks? I DON'T THINK SO. Think twice and don't buy it if you don't know what it is otherwise you just buy it to have it returned later, you probably could miss your phone and expect to have it all save at this device, wrong you won't get it.
originally posted on westerndigital.com
I got this unit as part of an emergency recall by WD on older MyBook Live units, a number of which has been compromised earlier. Since I had configured the MBL for remote access at a friend's home, I was naturally worried. Instead of issuing an emergency patch for those older systems running on outdated hardware, WD issued a rebate on the current series which it considered equivalent in functionality. As we'll see, it's not. For the background, It doesn’t have its own place in WD’s website, which deceptively lists it among the NASes. Western Digital intended the device to be a cloud replacement, which indeed fits one usage scenario: why pay monthly for a set amount of cloud storage when you can pay once and still have the convenience of lifetime cloud-based storage? ... MoreI got this unit as part of an emergency recall by WD on older MyBook Live units, a number of which has been compromised earlier. Since I had configured the MBL for remote access at a friend's home, I was naturally worried. Instead of issuing an emergency patch for those older systems running on outdated hardware, WD issued a rebate on the current series which it considered equivalent in functionality. As we'll see, it's not. For the background, It doesn’t have its own place in WD’s website, which deceptively lists it among the NASes. Western Digital intended the device to be a cloud replacement, which indeed fits one usage scenario: why pay monthly for a set amount of cloud storage when you can pay once and still have the convenience of lifetime cloud-based storage? I already have two other NASes, one from a well-known brand, another one running a custom firmware baked up by two Dutch engineers. One is made to be accessed from outside as well as on the LAN, the other one is strictly for LAN-only backups and file sharing, since I chose not to use its very powerful online file sharing capabilities. My router is manually configured for this usage scenario, UPnP is disabled as per common security recommendations. I know how to forward a port, thanks very much. Let's start with the flowers: hardware-wise, the My Cloud Home is well-built, well-ventilated, and its aesthetics are brilliant (no pun intended). It's quiet and sits well on a shelf, either cables in front or behind, depending wether you need USB access. It features a powerful CPU and plenty of RAM, a USB 3.0 port. It’s not an underpowered CPU coupled to skimpy RAM amounts like on the MBL. Software wise, setting up the My Cloud Home is more complex than the My Book Live (as far as I can remember), but much easier than, say, a blue, well-known brand making wireless printers that still require a installing two pieces of software, a USB connection to set up but additional configuration if we want to use it to actually print. Now the pot(s). What the description page doesn't tell you clearly, and neither does the manual, is that this **cannot work as a NAS**. I didn’t knew it at the time, but even if I did, it would have made no difference since the rebate only applied to the My Cloud Home series, excluding any other storage series. I couldn’t even mix-and-match items with and without rebates in the same cart. With so many storage to be used, there is no easy way to access it on the LAN side. Well, it can be done, but only in one folder, one protocol, and after authenticating to WD's servers through their own software. Problem is: WD's software only works on recent Windows and Mac OS X versions. Too bad for you Linux, this device isn't standards compliant. That means, if you're a power user and use all three major platforms, you're out of luck. Therefore, it's not all all easy to use. Another one: software-wise, the "firmware" is technically a customized version of Android, DRM-ladden (Hence the Plex-compatibility) and completely under WD's control. WD can update it whenever it sees fit (good for security, at least theoretically), but that also means they can disable it whenever they see fit (TBH I never heard any storage-manufacturing company doing that, but the simple possibility worried me). The updates are processed in the background and typically takes hours, and the MCH will restart by itself, taking tens of minutes to complete, very rarely hours, but **cannot be interrupted**. No thanks, I won't make my schedule around WD's one. To achieve this always-updated goal, the software constantly communicates its state to WD. To me, the real issue was that I simply couldn't know **what kind** of information was being sent out to WD and Google. Android constantly “phones home”, and I am simply not confortable knowing that Google may know of possibly personal or sensitive documents residing on a device that has been marked as belonging to me. But I needed the storage, I DID want NAS capability. Accessing large storage areas on my LAN is a must. Having six or so computers, I don’t want to have to remember where I put some data, nor did I want to use unnecessary software that won’t work during an internet outage. I also didn’t want to destroy a perfectly-good, hardware wise, CPU+RAM+Enclosure to slap the drive into a regular NAS. So here’s what I did: Starting from an empty drive: 1. Found a crude hack on some forum 2. Booted a Debian installation which superimposed its file structure on top of the Android one. I still don’t consider the firmware “clean”. 3. Installed an older OpenMediaVault version. This piece of software focusses on power-users and isn’t the most user-friendly, but at least it gives control back to the user. 4. Configured static IP on the MCH 5. From the router, blocked all internet traffic to and from this MCH. Since I can’t know what is being communicated to Google, better off cutting all outside connection. This is crude, sure, and somewhat crippling, but at least I can use the device on every computer / media centre in the home. If I was to give an advice to WD: - Keep the device as it is now. I’m sure enough people have recent computers and are quite happy with a storage that keeps itself up to date, and don’t mind using another piece of software. - Open up LAN capabilities. Because it’s ridiculous, other NAS brands do manage WAN and LAN access at the same time. - For power users, write up an official way to install Debian/OMV, and insist on the fact that **WD won’t provide any software support** for this configuration beyond these basic steps. Router makers started using GPL-licensed firmware, that saved them development costs, people were happy, power-users were happy, sales soared, the router appeared in cartoons as “The Big Internet”. You can't get more legendary.
originally posted on westerndigital.com
I purchased this at BestBuy a couple of years ago and it never worked correctly. It has always been super slow, wouldn't show in Finder, and on, and on with issues. I spent hours on WD customer service chat in the past as well trouble shooting connectivity issues and transfer speeds as they are so slow you can't even stream a movie if you have it stored on the device to your wireless device, even under the same roof, let alone trying to access this data from afar. Fast forward a couple of years WD decided to "update" their WD MyCloud services and stopped offering updates or support to my device and all those that were purchased in this timeframe making the drive a brick. You can read reviews and threads online about this, it's criminal. I have since purchased a ... MoreI purchased this at BestBuy a couple of years ago and it never worked correctly. It has always been super slow, wouldn't show in Finder, and on, and on with issues. I spent hours on WD customer service chat in the past as well trouble shooting connectivity issues and transfer speeds as they are so slow you can't even stream a movie if you have it stored on the device to your wireless device, even under the same roof, let alone trying to access this data from afar. Fast forward a couple of years WD decided to "update" their WD MyCloud services and stopped offering updates or support to my device and all those that were purchased in this timeframe making the drive a brick. You can read reviews and threads online about this, it's criminal. I have since purchased a multi-bay docking station and shucked the external housing, something I should have done years ago. If you want to access your data, this is what it has come down to. And as you will read in the responses from WD in the reviews and comments here, they even say you cannot connect the drive directly to your computer with any cables. It's absolute garbage of a product and insanely overpriced for all the headaches involved. Save your money, get a regular NAS if this is the route you want to go or just buy externals and be done with it. WD should pull this product and more people should write their reviews, I can't see anyone rating this item as anything above 3 stars, and this would be generous.
| Hard Drive | 4 TB Usb |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 1 |
| Hardware Platform | PC, Mac |
| Product Dimensions | 14 x 5.31 x 17.55 cm; 1.03 Kilograms |
| Item dimensions L x W x H | 14 x 5.3 x 17.6 Centimetres |
Don't buy WD My could home, get a simple external HD for your BKP's please read below For what is proposed I'll give it 1* see my reasons and think twice before you buy it. 1. too expensive what it offers 2. the available apps are far too complicated for beginners 3. they just won't support desktop app support, meaning you will use it as a regular external device which costs 1/3 of the price. 4. the mobile apps do not sync your photos in time and you have to open the app and synch it yourself, like today I opened it and there were 2k photos and videos to upload 5. it does not preserve the original dates of your videos and photos making it impossible to organize, which means you have a messed storage with 2000 photos and videos from different dates all uploaded in a ... MoreDon't buy WD My could home, get a simple external HD for your BKP's please read below For what is proposed I'll give it 1* see my reasons and think twice before you buy it. 1. too expensive what it offers 2. the available apps are far too complicated for beginners 3. they just won't support desktop app support, meaning you will use it as a regular external device which costs 1/3 of the price. 4. the mobile apps do not sync your photos in time and you have to open the app and synch it yourself, like today I opened it and there were 2k photos and videos to upload 5. it does not preserve the original dates of your videos and photos making it impossible to organize, which means you have a messed storage with 2000 photos and videos from different dates all uploaded in a single day. 6. even people with knowledge of mobile phones or windows won't be able to easily find their photos in the right order they were taken. 7. did I already say it's too slow to upload the photos finally, the only good thing is that you don't need to connect a USB cable, the wifi or network allows you to do it, so does it worth paying that much to just be able to connect to wifi/networks? I DON'T THINK SO. Think twice and don't buy it if you don't know what it is otherwise you just buy it to have it returned later, you probably could miss your phone and expect to have it all save at this device, wrong you won't get it.
I got this unit as part of an emergency recall by WD on older MyBook Live units, a number of which has been compromised earlier. Since I had configured the MBL for remote access at a friend's home, I was naturally worried. Instead of issuing an emergency patch for those older systems running on outdated hardware, WD issued a rebate on the current series which it considered equivalent in functionality. As we'll see, it's not. For the background, It doesn’t have its own place in WD’s website, which deceptively lists it among the NASes. Western Digital intended the device to be a cloud replacement, which indeed fits one usage scenario: why pay monthly for a set amount of cloud storage when you can pay once and still have the convenience of lifetime cloud-based storage? ... MoreI got this unit as part of an emergency recall by WD on older MyBook Live units, a number of which has been compromised earlier. Since I had configured the MBL for remote access at a friend's home, I was naturally worried. Instead of issuing an emergency patch for those older systems running on outdated hardware, WD issued a rebate on the current series which it considered equivalent in functionality. As we'll see, it's not. For the background, It doesn’t have its own place in WD’s website, which deceptively lists it among the NASes. Western Digital intended the device to be a cloud replacement, which indeed fits one usage scenario: why pay monthly for a set amount of cloud storage when you can pay once and still have the convenience of lifetime cloud-based storage? I already have two other NASes, one from a well-known brand, another one running a custom firmware baked up by two Dutch engineers. One is made to be accessed from outside as well as on the LAN, the other one is strictly for LAN-only backups and file sharing, since I chose not to use its very powerful online file sharing capabilities. My router is manually configured for this usage scenario, UPnP is disabled as per common security recommendations. I know how to forward a port, thanks very much. Let's start with the flowers: hardware-wise, the My Cloud Home is well-built, well-ventilated, and its aesthetics are brilliant (no pun intended). It's quiet and sits well on a shelf, either cables in front or behind, depending wether you need USB access. It features a powerful CPU and plenty of RAM, a USB 3.0 port. It’s not an underpowered CPU coupled to skimpy RAM amounts like on the MBL. Software wise, setting up the My Cloud Home is more complex than the My Book Live (as far as I can remember), but much easier than, say, a blue, well-known brand making wireless printers that still require a installing two pieces of software, a USB connection to set up but additional configuration if we want to use it to actually print. Now the pot(s). What the description page doesn't tell you clearly, and neither does the manual, is that this **cannot work as a NAS**. I didn’t knew it at the time, but even if I did, it would have made no difference since the rebate only applied to the My Cloud Home series, excluding any other storage series. I couldn’t even mix-and-match items with and without rebates in the same cart. With so many storage to be used, there is no easy way to access it on the LAN side. Well, it can be done, but only in one folder, one protocol, and after authenticating to WD's servers through their own software. Problem is: WD's software only works on recent Windows and Mac OS X versions. Too bad for you Linux, this device isn't standards compliant. That means, if you're a power user and use all three major platforms, you're out of luck. Therefore, it's not all all easy to use. Another one: software-wise, the "firmware" is technically a customized version of Android, DRM-ladden (Hence the Plex-compatibility) and completely under WD's control. WD can update it whenever it sees fit (good for security, at least theoretically), but that also means they can disable it whenever they see fit (TBH I never heard any storage-manufacturing company doing that, but the simple possibility worried me). The updates are processed in the background and typically takes hours, and the MCH will restart by itself, taking tens of minutes to complete, very rarely hours, but **cannot be interrupted**. No thanks, I won't make my schedule around WD's one. To achieve this always-updated goal, the software constantly communicates its state to WD. To me, the real issue was that I simply couldn't know **what kind** of information was being sent out to WD and Google. Android constantly “phones home”, and I am simply not confortable knowing that Google may know of possibly personal or sensitive documents residing on a device that has been marked as belonging to me. But I needed the storage, I DID want NAS capability. Accessing large storage areas on my LAN is a must. Having six or so computers, I don’t want to have to remember where I put some data, nor did I want to use unnecessary software that won’t work during an internet outage. I also didn’t want to destroy a perfectly-good, hardware wise, CPU+RAM+Enclosure to slap the drive into a regular NAS. So here’s what I did: Starting from an empty drive: 1. Found a crude hack on some forum 2. Booted a Debian installation which superimposed its file structure on top of the Android one. I still don’t consider the firmware “clean”. 3. Installed an older OpenMediaVault version. This piece of software focusses on power-users and isn’t the most user-friendly, but at least it gives control back to the user. 4. Configured static IP on the MCH 5. From the router, blocked all internet traffic to and from this MCH. Since I can’t know what is being communicated to Google, better off cutting all outside connection. This is crude, sure, and somewhat crippling, but at least I can use the device on every computer / media centre in the home. If I was to give an advice to WD: - Keep the device as it is now. I’m sure enough people have recent computers and are quite happy with a storage that keeps itself up to date, and don’t mind using another piece of software. - Open up LAN capabilities. Because it’s ridiculous, other NAS brands do manage WAN and LAN access at the same time. - For power users, write up an official way to install Debian/OMV, and insist on the fact that **WD won’t provide any software support** for this configuration beyond these basic steps. Router makers started using GPL-licensed firmware, that saved them development costs, people were happy, power-users were happy, sales soared, the router appeared in cartoons as “The Big Internet”. You can't get more legendary.
I purchased this at BestBuy a couple of years ago and it never worked correctly. It has always been super slow, wouldn't show in Finder, and on, and on with issues. I spent hours on WD customer service chat in the past as well trouble shooting connectivity issues and transfer speeds as they are so slow you can't even stream a movie if you have it stored on the device to your wireless device, even under the same roof, let alone trying to access this data from afar. Fast forward a couple of years WD decided to "update" their WD MyCloud services and stopped offering updates or support to my device and all those that were purchased in this timeframe making the drive a brick. You can read reviews and threads online about this, it's criminal. I have since purchased a ... MoreI purchased this at BestBuy a couple of years ago and it never worked correctly. It has always been super slow, wouldn't show in Finder, and on, and on with issues. I spent hours on WD customer service chat in the past as well trouble shooting connectivity issues and transfer speeds as they are so slow you can't even stream a movie if you have it stored on the device to your wireless device, even under the same roof, let alone trying to access this data from afar. Fast forward a couple of years WD decided to "update" their WD MyCloud services and stopped offering updates or support to my device and all those that were purchased in this timeframe making the drive a brick. You can read reviews and threads online about this, it's criminal. I have since purchased a multi-bay docking station and shucked the external housing, something I should have done years ago. If you want to access your data, this is what it has come down to. And as you will read in the responses from WD in the reviews and comments here, they even say you cannot connect the drive directly to your computer with any cables. It's absolute garbage of a product and insanely overpriced for all the headaches involved. Save your money, get a regular NAS if this is the route you want to go or just buy externals and be done with it. WD should pull this product and more people should write their reviews, I can't see anyone rating this item as anything above 3 stars, and this would be generous.
I really like the interface and it quickly backs up my data from my cell phone and computer. Also I'm able to stream large video files without any buffering. I Like the ability to share large video files with people you choose via a link and they can view it as long as you want them to, you can always stop sharing the link also, but if you have a special event or Album that you took lots of photos and videos for a person, it's a perfect way to share it with them without having to compress the video files, they can view it straight from the cloud, via the link that you share that specific album, file with said individual. This is very simple to set up and if you want to make a back up of your cloud since it's not a NAS I make a copy of my files and back them up by ... MoreI really like the interface and it quickly backs up my data from my cell phone and computer. Also I'm able to stream large video files without any buffering. I Like the ability to share large video files with people you choose via a link and they can view it as long as you want them to, you can always stop sharing the link also, but if you have a special event or Album that you took lots of photos and videos for a person, it's a perfect way to share it with them without having to compress the video files, they can view it straight from the cloud, via the link that you share that specific album, file with said individual. This is very simple to set up and if you want to make a back up of your cloud since it's not a NAS I make a copy of my files and back them up by hooking up a external hard drive to the USB port and click copy to said drive. If you want to you can also use the USB port to import files as well. Overall if you like something simple I think this gives you options. I wish it had and auto back up feature where it would have a port for an external drive just for mirroring this drive onto another hardrive because than it would be more secure and convenient for all the other users on the device since other users are not going to constantly make unsecure copies of there data onto someone else's external hardrive so that now all there files can be seen. So I see that there is definitely room for improvement and I hope they take the feedback and implement it and give people the options to have more mobility with the device would be nice. I think it needs to have a NAS feature where you can connect a external drive and have it do daily backups. People don't want a cloud where they have data that's going to going to crash eventually that's scary and you should just go with a NAS set up in that case because for me I don't have a lot of users so I can easily make copies but otherwise I would definitely suggest WD eventually put in a setting that programs a daily backup to a external hardrive.
Dissapointing : I was an onwer of the MDMyCloud (older version) and worked just fine. Was installed on my bedroom and local access was really fast. I got a mail from WD with a customer discount for the newer version My Cloud Home 8Tb. I bought it and discovered that older version was even better that i realized. The new HD is slower and makes a lot more noise !! Was required to moved it to another room, so i could sleep at night. The PLEX interface for running local videos (same network) is slower than any of my streaming services ! How it that even possible, as My Cloud Home is in the same network !! Not to mention i have a WD Elements 8Tb that i would like to connect to My Cloud home and do a daily backup, but tried all software provided and does not have one for ... MoreDissapointing : I was an onwer of the MDMyCloud (older version) and worked just fine. Was installed on my bedroom and local access was really fast. I got a mail from WD with a customer discount for the newer version My Cloud Home 8Tb. I bought it and discovered that older version was even better that i realized. The new HD is slower and makes a lot more noise !! Was required to moved it to another room, so i could sleep at night. The PLEX interface for running local videos (same network) is slower than any of my streaming services ! How it that even possible, as My Cloud Home is in the same network !! Not to mention i have a WD Elements 8Tb that i would like to connect to My Cloud home and do a daily backup, but tried all software provided and does not have one for automatic backups included. Only for contracting a 3rd party backup in cloud that seems to be much expensive. If i wanted to move backups to cloud, i would not spend 300USD in a local disk. Have been a happy customer of WD for a long, but this time the WD product was not worthy the money i spent. Will need to consider other options for future products.
I’ve purchased multiple MyCloud NAS storage devices that they stopped supporting with the deprecation of the WD Access application. As a result, I upgraded to MyCloud Home. And they are now deprecating the supporting software (WD Discovery) as of June 2023 (according to the email they just sent their customers). I still have the drives and they are working well from a hardware perspective. But without the software that they offer as part of the system, they are difficult to use and, in my opinion, akin to planned obsolescence that drives customers to buy new WD systems. Yes, the older MyCloud and MyCloud Home hardware DOES work and accessible with mounted drives using a convoluted workaround provided by WD. But, it’s not what I bought when I made my investment. ... MoreI’ve purchased multiple MyCloud NAS storage devices that they stopped supporting with the deprecation of the WD Access application. As a result, I upgraded to MyCloud Home. And they are now deprecating the supporting software (WD Discovery) as of June 2023 (according to the email they just sent their customers). I still have the drives and they are working well from a hardware perspective. But without the software that they offer as part of the system, they are difficult to use and, in my opinion, akin to planned obsolescence that drives customers to buy new WD systems. Yes, the older MyCloud and MyCloud Home hardware DOES work and accessible with mounted drives using a convoluted workaround provided by WD. But, it’s not what I bought when I made my investment. While I don’t expect manufacturers to support hardware and the accompanying software indefinitely, it should be supported for more than a few months or years. I see that WD STILL has this device (4GB MyCloud Home) for sale referencing the WD Discovery app as one of the tools to operate the device. Yet, they are stopping support in less than six months and this is not explained on their products page. I’m assuming the buyer will only know they will have this functionality after they make their own investment and register their account. I believe this is a good example of a planned obsolescence business model from a company that has lost it’s focus on customer satisfaction.
After buying the device last year, I found many flaws in it. Luckily, the latest updates have fixed most of the issues: The terrible WD Discovery program will be replaced by full access to the device via the local network. Problems with access to some files have been fixed with the latest update. Everything works great now. Some shortcomings, however, still remain: 1) With the end of support for WD Discovery, we have lost the great real-time folder mirroring feature. It would be great to return this functionality in one of the updates or provide users with instructions on how to implement it in the current conditions. 2) When playing mp3 through the Android mobile application, some files can be rewound and start playback from an arbitrary position, and some files ... MoreAfter buying the device last year, I found many flaws in it. Luckily, the latest updates have fixed most of the issues: The terrible WD Discovery program will be replaced by full access to the device via the local network. Problems with access to some files have been fixed with the latest update. Everything works great now. Some shortcomings, however, still remain: 1) With the end of support for WD Discovery, we have lost the great real-time folder mirroring feature. It would be great to return this functionality in one of the updates or provide users with instructions on how to implement it in the current conditions. 2) When playing mp3 through the Android mobile application, some files can be rewound and start playback from an arbitrary position, and some files are not. The reason for this is not clear to me. At the same time, the same mp3 files are played through the web interface without these restrictions. Yes, the Plex mobile app solves this problem, but I only had to install it to play audiobooks properly. I find that this device currently works great as a personal cloud storage service with the excellent bonus of LAN access. Just fix the playback of mp3 files through the mobile application!
Potentially very useful product. I bought this to replace a hard drive I had connected to my router through a usb cable, and then I accessed wirelessly through the router and wifi. Apparently that's not the kind of thing people do any more as when I replaced my router I couldn't find one that would connect to the hard drive through a usb cable and was unable to kludge together a connection using various transition fittings. I found this personal cloud drive as an alternative for my hard drive and eventually was able to use it for my purpose. WD made it very easy to transfer the data from my hard drive-albeit WD's instructions on its web page weren't always clear and some of their internal links to further instructions were expired links, so it required some help ... MorePotentially very useful product. I bought this to replace a hard drive I had connected to my router through a usb cable, and then I accessed wirelessly through the router and wifi. Apparently that's not the kind of thing people do any more as when I replaced my router I couldn't find one that would connect to the hard drive through a usb cable and was unable to kludge together a connection using various transition fittings. I found this personal cloud drive as an alternative for my hard drive and eventually was able to use it for my purpose. WD made it very easy to transfer the data from my hard drive-albeit WD's instructions on its web page weren't always clear and some of their internal links to further instructions were expired links, so it required some help through WD customer support. The support tech was helpful, but the only method of communication allowed was online chat and not telephone, so there were some communication problems. Also, (and it's possible I simply haven't yet discovered the correct and easier way to do this) saving data to the cloud drive requires me to access my cloud account dashboard (my term, not their's) on my computer or other device, and then from within my account dashboard find the data file wherever it is (e.g., saved on my computer or other device) and then save it to my cloud drive-this requires me to save the data file someplace (on my computer or other device, usb drive, etc) and copy that data to my cloud drive. Using my old hard drive, on the other hand, I could save a pdf or other data file directly from its original source to my remote hard drive without saving it first-this was particularly useful when saving pdfs of books from Gutenberg or archive for example, or other files downloaded from the internet. So, with some workarounds the cloud drive can do what I want, it just isn't as easy to use as my previous system for most of what I want to use it for; there are some features, such as remote access from anywhere through the internet rather than only when in range of my prior router, that for some will be better than my old system-it's just that the advantages I am presently aware of don't totally offset the disadvantages I am currently dealing with. Anyway, with some workarounds, the cloud drive is usable for what I want even if it doesn't do so as conveniently as my prior system. But inasmuch as the hardware for my prior system is no longer available, the Personal Cloud fills my needs adequately and so is useful.
This is decent cloud accessible backup. This is not NAS and shouldn't try to pretend it is. fine for occasional small files. If you actually want to use as a backup, don't plan to change anything often or it will bog down. I connected to this as a network drive and ugh...slows my explorer down to the point where the only thing I can do is restart my computer. There is nothing elegant about this. This is only designed for backups and the backups are slow. It's not designed as NAS and if you find work-arounds to let you use it as NAS, it will be slow as heck. And it's loud. Across the room, I can hear this 24/7 Save yourself. Get a real NAS solution, not this. The pro of this is that your data is available online from anywhere, which would be okay if it weren't just ... MoreThis is decent cloud accessible backup. This is not NAS and shouldn't try to pretend it is. fine for occasional small files. If you actually want to use as a backup, don't plan to change anything often or it will bog down. I connected to this as a network drive and ugh...slows my explorer down to the point where the only thing I can do is restart my computer. There is nothing elegant about this. This is only designed for backups and the backups are slow. It's not designed as NAS and if you find work-arounds to let you use it as NAS, it will be slow as heck. And it's loud. Across the room, I can hear this 24/7 Save yourself. Get a real NAS solution, not this. The pro of this is that your data is available online from anywhere, which would be okay if it weren't just data backups. I only edit my primary copies of files, so this feature is useless for me. Great for people who want to backup and show off their photographs. Mostly useless for people looking for sharing files and folders through Network Accessible Storage.
My WD 8TB Cloud Home drive replaced my original WD MyCloud drive. I found the new drive very easy to setup and easy to load pictures into. It is easy to share the link to a photo "album" with others. They can download individual pictures or the entire album. There are several things that I do home the designers improve. These include the ability to put a file folder (parent/child) structure on the albums. As it is today, If I want to create 5 albums for 5 different family vacations, I have to send out 5 different links. It would be nice to be able to send out a family vacation link, and then the individual could select which vacation they want to see. This ability to create child albums would also be nice when sharing wedding pictures, allowing me to share different ... MoreMy WD 8TB Cloud Home drive replaced my original WD MyCloud drive. I found the new drive very easy to setup and easy to load pictures into. It is easy to share the link to a photo "album" with others. They can download individual pictures or the entire album. There are several things that I do home the designers improve. These include the ability to put a file folder (parent/child) structure on the albums. As it is today, If I want to create 5 albums for 5 different family vacations, I have to send out 5 different links. It would be nice to be able to send out a family vacation link, and then the individual could select which vacation they want to see. This ability to create child albums would also be nice when sharing wedding pictures, allowing me to share different aspects of the wedding not just 300 pictures in a long list. It would also be nice to have a bit of a structure on the folders that contain all the pictures. Today it is a long list of folder names, no way to organize them. And, it would be fantastic if the user interface could look over the pictures and help me to easily remove duplicates. On the hardware side, my old WD MyCloud drive had more settings, and allowed me to put it into energy saver mode, so when it was not being accessed it would go to sleep. The new drive does not have this setting, so it is on 24/7/365. It is a great upgrade, but could be better.
| Hard Drive | 4 TB Usb |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 1 |
| Hardware Platform | PC, Mac |
| Product Dimensions | 14 x 5.31 x 17.55 cm; 1.03 Kilograms |
| Item dimensions L x W x H | 14 x 5.3 x 17.6 Centimetres |
