whats the difference between the MyBook and My Cloud drives ?
Shaaleen Garg December 23, 2014
Hi Lon. Thanks for taking time to review. I purchased 2 TB version. I am
able to see the drive when I connect by Ethernet but am unable to see it on
wifi in my home network.
kenny johnston December 23, 2014
Does any one happen to know if the WD My Cloud app can automatically back
up photos, videos, contacts? This is the feature I’m looking for after
running over my cell phone with a semi truck (accidentally)
Lon Seidman December 23, 2014
Getting really aggravated with these new comments. Twice now it’s said I
can’t reply to somebody on my own channel. Grrr.
In any event, +Alexandre Maranhao, I ran a benchmark tonight using the
BlackMagic Disk Speed Test. I use this for benchmarking drives for video
purposes. The drive recorded 24.7 megabytes per second writes (about 197.6
megabits per second) and 55.5 megabytes per second reads (444 megabits per
second). I have some older patch cables and a bit of distance between my
Mac and the drive so I am going to attempt a more direct connection and see
if it can go any faster.
penny kinsella December 23, 2014
Lon
I ma looking for a NAS that can be configured to automatically sync and
save videos and pics from our mobile devices, iphones, ipads etc. I would
ideally like it to be a simple procedure initialized from our phones or as
automatic as possible. Is this possible with his device? If not is this
possible with any other?
Jay Riddle December 23, 2014
I think you should have demonstrated the backup feature by following
through on that almost-HD knockdown. ;-)
Gasper Bendo December 23, 2014
hello watching your videos, I decided to buy a hard drive wd MyCloud mirror
but now I need a huge favor. So I bought a WD hard drive my cloud mirror
8TB and it works fine except that I had on my mac so many HD movies that
when I put on the external hard drive lost their cover and information that
I added about the year the quality of the movie etc. and now I wanted to
ask if you know any app for mac that allows me to keep the film on the
external hard drive (wd my cloud) but at the same time allow me to organize
them well on the mac without having anything on the mac hard drive
understand me ? please help me because I have a lot of movies and do not
know how to organize.
Gary A December 23, 2014
Happy days! western digital did an update on the drives firmware today
which has fixed the SRT subtitle not showing problem so everyone update
your drives, there was also other tweaks in tonights update!
resnick11 December 23, 2014
Hi Lon,
concerned about Dynamic IP:
Great review. I’ve been using an Iomega NAS for the last several years,
but the storage is used up and I can’t pop in bigger drives. This is on my
list, but I’m confused about the remote access. On my NAS I have a ddns
account set up and I simply type in the ddns address (i.e.;
mynas.myiomega.com) and it takes me to the login page of the NAS on port 80
I think. From there I can enter a user name and password. different
usernames have different rights as set up in the NAS. I’m concerned about
only being able to access this device through the “app”. I’m a windows
user. How does WD get around dynamic IP addresses? Can I simply log in on
any computer with an internet browser and type in the address of the NAS?
I don’t like being restricted to just their way with their software. What
if I’m at the library computer and need a file?
thanks for your time!
G
David Kelly December 23, 2014
Hi Lon, I am looking for a device to back up a Laptop , Home PC and
photos/videos taken on mobile phone. Would you recommend this device? or
would a WD MyBook suffice? I will not require access to my files out of
home! Thanks Great Videos and subbed!
Raj December 23, 2014
Hi there
I think this HDdoes not work properly on remote access.
At the remote computer as advised by company, go to http://www.wd2go.com enter
your username and password and the drive will be mounted on to your
computer. After doing so I can see all of my files but when I try to open
any word file, it ask me username and password which I have entered but
file never opens up and after trying for multiple attempts file opens up
but only as read only. Not impressed.
TIME WASTER.
Another option is download desktop app but that app is useless. You can’t
see file type, can’t save directly on to hard drive, can’t see drive when
you are attaching file from outlook.
Not a good buy.
When I saw your video was really impressed but now actual experience
Jazz Washington December 23, 2014
Didn’t you have a video you recommended for hard drive to TV (movies, etc)
support?
Eric Semmelmayer December 23, 2014
Can you steam music from it? i have about 38,000 songs in my library and
want to have streaming access to all of them on my iPhone. I have looked
all over the web for an answer to this question, but cant find any info. I
sure wold appreciate you helping me out with some information about its
music streaming capabilities
Thanks Lon
Michiel Soullié December 23, 2014
Hi Lon,
Super video! Thanks for your clear and honest review, helped me a lot!
Thanks!!!
Niezpro Production December 23, 2014
can i attach my 2bay harddisk docking to mycloud usb port?
Xavier Manzano December 23, 2014
hi lon, i had a question, if i set up the wd my cloud at my house but
wanted to use it at my church which is about 30 minutes away would i have
access to all administrative options such as making shared folders, or and
modifying what is available for mobile devices to see and use?
Jon Pole December 23, 2014
I have watched a number of your reviews on a few products similar to this
one and am leaning towards the My Cloud to act as my own personal cloud
rather than relying on Google Drive to house my videos. I am just curious:
1. How well the My Cloud streams video on to the app on my phone or tablet
remotely (4G LTE)
2. How well videos stream from a browser on my PC
Any glitchiness, loss of quality or lag time to note?
The reason I ask is because I think I’m apart of a growing demographic of
people that are streaming videos previously uploaded to a cloud, onto their
a device then casting the video onto my TV using Chromecast or AppleTV and
want to be sure the video can make the journey across those three devices
without a loss of quality or unreliability.
If you could give me your opinion on this hardware’s capability to perform
this task it would greatly effect my decision on whether I choose this
product, a different one or stick to Drive. Thanks for your time,
-Jonathan
Yossihn Hayoun December 23, 2014
Is there anyway to access to wd my cloud from a chromebok?
Jeff Biggs December 23, 2014
Hi Lon,
I’m hoping you can point me in the right direction. I have a WD My Cloud
3TB I purchased it after seeing your review and I’m very happy with it. I
also have a Kindle Fire HDX – is there anyway to view the data I have
stored on the hard drive on the Kindle Fire, it appears that there was an
app but it seems to have been removed from the Amazon Store?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff
William Tao December 23, 2014
Since it uses Wi-Fi to transfer files to the storage, does that mean I am
technically wasting internet bandwidth every time I Read/Write something on
my local network?
Is the WD My Cloud smart enough to know when I am on the local network and
read/write directly to the drive on the local network or will it wrote to
the local drive through the WD My Cloud by means of the Internet?
Ben Dover December 23, 2014
Great video. Any issues with having my cloud and my cloud ex2 on same
network? Thanks
Evert Dijkstra December 23, 2014
hi, awesome videos on the WD My Cloud. I got a question, can you backup
only a part of your MyCloud to an external disk? Like only 500GB of the
2/4TB. Greetings from Holland
Faroek Nasierkhan December 23, 2014
I agree that cloud storage can be potentially dangerous. I would rather
keep all my information on my hard drive or a flash drive. We have to be
careful placing our information in the hands of others. Its too much of
that happening these days.
Greg Empey December 23, 2014
Hi Lon,
I purchased a 4Tb WD My Cloud in the hopes of being able to use it as an
off-site backup up device. Once I complete the initial backup, the device
will be housed on my friends network. I then want to perform nightly
backups to the device. Can it do this? Obviously, I don’t want my friend
to be able to access the device. Can I implement such a restriction? Can
I turn the off the DLNA capability? Can I configure the device remotely?
Is there a better solution than this device?
DAVID BRAVO December 23, 2014
ITS POSSIBLE ACCESS TO MYCLOUD DRIVE AND PLAY MOVIES WITH EXTENTION
SUBTITLES LIKE .SRT?
whats the difference between the MyBook and My Cloud drives ?
Hi Lon. Thanks for taking time to review. I purchased 2 TB version. I am
able to see the drive when I connect by Ethernet but am unable to see it on
wifi in my home network.
Does any one happen to know if the WD My Cloud app can automatically back
up photos, videos, contacts? This is the feature I’m looking for after
running over my cell phone with a semi truck (accidentally)
Getting really aggravated with these new comments. Twice now it’s said I
can’t reply to somebody on my own channel. Grrr.
In any event, +Alexandre Maranhao, I ran a benchmark tonight using the
BlackMagic Disk Speed Test. I use this for benchmarking drives for video
purposes. The drive recorded 24.7 megabytes per second writes (about 197.6
megabits per second) and 55.5 megabytes per second reads (444 megabits per
second). I have some older patch cables and a bit of distance between my
Mac and the drive so I am going to attempt a more direct connection and see
if it can go any faster.
Lon
I ma looking for a NAS that can be configured to automatically sync and
save videos and pics from our mobile devices, iphones, ipads etc. I would
ideally like it to be a simple procedure initialized from our phones or as
automatic as possible. Is this possible with his device? If not is this
possible with any other?
I think you should have demonstrated the backup feature by following
through on that almost-HD knockdown. ;-)
hello watching your videos, I decided to buy a hard drive wd MyCloud mirror
but now I need a huge favor. So I bought a WD hard drive my cloud mirror
8TB and it works fine except that I had on my mac so many HD movies that
when I put on the external hard drive lost their cover and information that
I added about the year the quality of the movie etc. and now I wanted to
ask if you know any app for mac that allows me to keep the film on the
external hard drive (wd my cloud) but at the same time allow me to organize
them well on the mac without having anything on the mac hard drive
understand me ? please help me because I have a lot of movies and do not
know how to organize.
Happy days! western digital did an update on the drives firmware today
which has fixed the SRT subtitle not showing problem so everyone update
your drives, there was also other tweaks in tonights update!
Hi Lon,
concerned about Dynamic IP:
Great review. I’ve been using an Iomega NAS for the last several years,
but the storage is used up and I can’t pop in bigger drives. This is on my
list, but I’m confused about the remote access. On my NAS I have a ddns
account set up and I simply type in the ddns address (i.e.;
mynas.myiomega.com) and it takes me to the login page of the NAS on port 80
I think. From there I can enter a user name and password. different
usernames have different rights as set up in the NAS. I’m concerned about
only being able to access this device through the “app”. I’m a windows
user. How does WD get around dynamic IP addresses? Can I simply log in on
any computer with an internet browser and type in the address of the NAS?
I don’t like being restricted to just their way with their software. What
if I’m at the library computer and need a file?
thanks for your time!
G
Hi Lon, I am looking for a device to back up a Laptop , Home PC and
photos/videos taken on mobile phone. Would you recommend this device? or
would a WD MyBook suffice? I will not require access to my files out of
home! Thanks Great Videos and subbed!
Hi there
I think this HDdoes not work properly on remote access.
At the remote computer as advised by company, go to http://www.wd2go.com enter
your username and password and the drive will be mounted on to your
computer. After doing so I can see all of my files but when I try to open
any word file, it ask me username and password which I have entered but
file never opens up and after trying for multiple attempts file opens up
but only as read only. Not impressed.
TIME WASTER.
Another option is download desktop app but that app is useless. You can’t
see file type, can’t save directly on to hard drive, can’t see drive when
you are attaching file from outlook.
Not a good buy.
When I saw your video was really impressed but now actual experience
Didn’t you have a video you recommended for hard drive to TV (movies, etc)
support?
Can you steam music from it? i have about 38,000 songs in my library and
want to have streaming access to all of them on my iPhone. I have looked
all over the web for an answer to this question, but cant find any info. I
sure wold appreciate you helping me out with some information about its
music streaming capabilities
Thanks Lon
Hi Lon,
Super video! Thanks for your clear and honest review, helped me a lot!
Thanks!!!
can i attach my 2bay harddisk docking to mycloud usb port?
hi lon, i had a question, if i set up the wd my cloud at my house but
wanted to use it at my church which is about 30 minutes away would i have
access to all administrative options such as making shared folders, or and
modifying what is available for mobile devices to see and use?
I have watched a number of your reviews on a few products similar to this
one and am leaning towards the My Cloud to act as my own personal cloud
rather than relying on Google Drive to house my videos. I am just curious:
1. How well the My Cloud streams video on to the app on my phone or tablet
remotely (4G LTE)
2. How well videos stream from a browser on my PC
Any glitchiness, loss of quality or lag time to note?
The reason I ask is because I think I’m apart of a growing demographic of
people that are streaming videos previously uploaded to a cloud, onto their
a device then casting the video onto my TV using Chromecast or AppleTV and
want to be sure the video can make the journey across those three devices
without a loss of quality or unreliability.
If you could give me your opinion on this hardware’s capability to perform
this task it would greatly effect my decision on whether I choose this
product, a different one or stick to Drive. Thanks for your time,
-Jonathan
Is there anyway to access to wd my cloud from a chromebok?
Hi Lon,
I’m hoping you can point me in the right direction. I have a WD My Cloud
3TB I purchased it after seeing your review and I’m very happy with it. I
also have a Kindle Fire HDX – is there anyway to view the data I have
stored on the hard drive on the Kindle Fire, it appears that there was an
app but it seems to have been removed from the Amazon Store?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff
Since it uses Wi-Fi to transfer files to the storage, does that mean I am
technically wasting internet bandwidth every time I Read/Write something on
my local network?
Is the WD My Cloud smart enough to know when I am on the local network and
read/write directly to the drive on the local network or will it wrote to
the local drive through the WD My Cloud by means of the Internet?
Great video. Any issues with having my cloud and my cloud ex2 on same
network? Thanks
hi, awesome videos on the WD My Cloud. I got a question, can you backup
only a part of your MyCloud to an external disk? Like only 500GB of the
2/4TB. Greetings from Holland
I agree that cloud storage can be potentially dangerous. I would rather
keep all my information on my hard drive or a flash drive. We have to be
careful placing our information in the hands of others. Its too much of
that happening these days.
Hi Lon,
I purchased a 4Tb WD My Cloud in the hopes of being able to use it as an
off-site backup up device. Once I complete the initial backup, the device
will be housed on my friends network. I then want to perform nightly
backups to the device. Can it do this? Obviously, I don’t want my friend
to be able to access the device. Can I implement such a restriction? Can
I turn the off the DLNA capability? Can I configure the device remotely?
Is there a better solution than this device?
ITS POSSIBLE ACCESS TO MYCLOUD DRIVE AND PLAY MOVIES WITH EXTENTION
SUBTITLES LIKE .SRT?