amazon WD My Cloud Home reviews
If one day you decide you do not want to use Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive but still want to store your data in the cloud, you might want to try out the WD My Cloud drive. It is a NAS drive, at home you can stream movies, music, photos. On the street you can still access it to see the file as a true cloud service. The only difference is that your hard drive and data is at your home, not the server somewhere.
My Cloud is not new, but it’s been years since we’ve been upgrading our hardware, software, and hardware to make it more modern. This year, the My Cloud drive follows the design of My Passport, which is a two-body type of two different colors, look beautiful and modern.
The design of the drive is simple, the front is lit, the back has power port, network port and USB port, if you buy Duo – 2 hard drive will have 2 USB holes. This USB is used to plug the external hard drive. Not used for direct computer access.
The top and bottom of the drive are the ventilation slots. Ổ Duo, you can remove the cover to replace the hard drive, normal drive is not removed.
Since it’s a mass product, installation and setup are very simple. All you need to do is plug the hard drive, plug the network cable from the hard drive into the router.
To assign a drive to your My Cloud account, simply enter the 9-digit number in the box, which only takes a few seconds. Very simple, compared with the old NAS config.
Just that, you can set to backup photos, videos of your device, iPad, Android, Samsung Galaxy etc and so on. Backup speed when the same LAN is very fast. When you go out on the road that connects to wifi then the backup speed is fine.
App on the phone can view photos, backed up documents, watch videos, listen to music, can delete files, rename, rearrange as you like.
On the computer, you can manage data using common file browsers such as Finder, File Explorer and so on. The beauty of using My Cloud is that you can sync any folder anywhere in the cloud
Unlike Dropbox or OneDrive, you can sync any folder anywhere in your My Cloud drive. When sync, all the content you put in that folder is automatically put into the drive and you can access from anywhere.
When there is a need to access the file, you can use any computer or phone, open the browser and visit home.mycloud.com to read the file. Of course, if you have an app then the access will be faster.
You can also invite more people to share your hard drive with. Each invited user will have a separate partition. Even if you are an Admin, you can not see other people’s files.
When you plug in the USB drive after the drive will have the message appears, you can optionally copy all the contents of the USB to the drive, or copy each file.
Files are stored in the cloud, you can share each file, or share the same folder, give link to others still access.
On Windows, the software has a backup option for the computer. On a Mac, you can set TimeMachine with this drive.
Overall, I’m pretty happy with the ease of setup, the ease of use of this drive. The customer base is simple, plug and play, no need for anything too complicated, no need to know about port forwarding, DMZ ….
In personally i feel about it:
– Beautiful design, good finishing
– The software is very easy to use, very fast installation
– Network access is fast and easy
– Like the ability to create more users, the whole house is also used.
– Has the ability to share each file separately, or individual folders
– Can set to sync drive with DropBox, Google Drive, OneDrive etc …
Note:
– When you choose Sync Folder, if you rename the original folder it will not sync anymore, right click, choose Sync again. At this point on the phone or on the disk will appear another folder (You can rename the file or the name of the subfolder in the root folder is not affected)
– If there are conditions to buy Duo with 2 hard drive RAID, missing a drive has problem, the data is still okay.
where can you get a WD My Cloud Home online
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