WD My Cloud Followup: Connecting multiple drives through the USB port

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  1. Thanks again for all the great videos on this product! Quick question,
    when I go to my USB symbol, I was expecting to see the external drive that
    I had attached (via USB) so I can eject it, but it’s not there. Any ideas
    on how I can eject the drive?

  2. Take my money.

  3. Hi Lon, Thanks for your excellent video’s. I never knew I would eat through
    2TB of Cloud storage but do you know if I can connect a new 4TB My Cloud to
    my 2TB My Cloud, it’s to increase storage rather than back up. Would this
    work with USB 3.0 connecting both devices? Or would you suggest just
    connect a WD My Book as external hard drive? Thank you.

  4. Thanks for your very informative and to the point videos on the MyCloud, I
    have one more question, – I have a 4TB MyCloud, and I some how link it to
    another 4TB MyCloud so that they run in tandem!!?? I need them for
    photograph storage. Thanks. 

  5. how do I connect a WD my cloud and a WD EX2, can I do that through USB ?

  6. Congrats for the reviews! Can you advise if you tried the Network UPS
    function? 

  7. Great series, Lon. Other than for backing up your NAS drives, what are the
    most common uses for the USB drives you can plus into the USB slot? I know
    you can map these drives, so they can be used for extra “everyday” storage
    – but what’s the point if you can’t back up those drives? I’d be more
    excited if you could actually mirror these in a RAID array – do you know of
    the EX2 or Mirror versions let you do that?

  8. Great review, but I have a question, can you set up a printer using the USB
    on the back. Therefore, creating a wireless printer?

  9. I am trying to locate a cable to connect my (My Cloud 4tb to a WD 2tb with
    usb 3.0) Both seem to have the same ports used to connect. Can you advise
    where you got your cables from and their cable names. thank you

  10. We are having a hard time connecting a new PC to our hub, which then
    connects to a wireless range extender and a WD MyCloud separately. All of
    the other PC’s seem to function fine, but the new one keeps asking for me
    the password on the root WDMyCloud folder and the sub “shares”. We can get
    into the root folder, but not into the private shares. Any help would be
    great. (Excellent videos, BTW)

  11. Hey Lon not sure if anyone has asked, with the additional drives can I move
    data from the additional drives back to the My Cloud drive or is it just
    from My Cloud to the additional drives only?

  12. Thanks for all the great videos, quick question, I am trying to connect my
    1TB external Segate HD, at the back of my My cloud 3TB USB, however the
    Segate drive never appears in the map network drive window (I am using
    windows 7), can you please advise if it is supported, I see in your video
    you have used a hub with multiple USB sticks but in my case it is a Seagate
    external 1 TB HD

  13. Hi Lon
    Thanks for all the videos u r sharing, I just got my WD cloud 2TB few days
    back, the thing is that i can’t play video file from desktop application
    unlike from my device which i can run smoothly.
    Thanks

  14. So if I wanted to buy a second one and use it as a “fake Raid”…That would
    work as well?…Also would another 2TB slow it down a lot? or was yours
    slowed down because you had a larger quantity of flash drives plugged in?
    Thank’s for the informative videos :)

  15. Hello!
    Is there a way to extend the drive space? I mean a way to extend it but
    being “invisible” to the user you have another drive plugged in.
    Because it’d be a mess to my parents to upload things to another drive
    inside a drive. Hehe. Thx 

  16. Hi Lon
    I have a network (WiFi) connected hp photosmart 5510 printer. The “my
    cloud” doesn’t show up on its network display. I’m looking to scan all my
    family photos directly to the my cloud public folder is there a way to do
    this directly. ?

  17. Cannot even connect one hard drive. 

  18. hi lon, ran into a problem with my newly purchased mycloud and thought I
    would check to see If you had posted a video on it and to my delight you
    have! – ok so basically ive got the drive all set up everything is working
    fine however I have a western digital 4tb my book and a 3tb Samsung drive
    which I intended to link with the mycloud via usb hub now for some reason
    it connects to the Samsung drive perfectly but when I plug in the western
    digital mybook is doesn’t register it? which sounds completely stupid when
    you think there both manufactured by WD :s any one able to shed some light
    on what im doing wrong?

  19. Hi Lon, I liked all your videos… Im also connecting MyCloud 4TB with a
    powered USB Hub my other 2 WD MyBook external Hard Drives (3TB, 4TB), but
    for some reason I can only see 1 hard drive, the 4TB, and nothing else. Is
    there any setting where I have to specify more than 1 USB or its suppose
    that automatically will recognize both ?? 

  20. Hey Lon, thank you very much for the great videos. There are very
    informative and well explained. I have a small question although I might
    contact WD for that. Do you know which type of HDD, WD uses for their
    clouds?

    Might be Red? Or maybe the cheaper Green Version?

  21. very nice video, i just got my 4TB, and to my great dissapointment, it
    doesnt work with a WD USB disk, although it does with flash drives. have
    you tried with an external disk?

  22. Hi I’m planning to buy My Cloud / My Cloud Mirror – 4Tb, i have a few
    Questions:

    1) Can i use My Cloud hard disk as a backup storage drive.
    2) Can i format or reparation the drive in a suitable format which is
    supported by my Laptop ( Mac Os )
    3) What is the transfer rate / Data Transfer rate if I’m transfer it
    thought my Wifi ( i have CISCO / Linksys E4200 ) and i have a Macbook Pro
    )
    4) Can i directly connect My Cloud to my computer via USB or Ethernet cable
    From My Cloud to My laptop.
    5) Can i expand My Cloud storage if required and if so then how , if via
    USB then how many drives can i connect to My Cloud USB Port Or via Some
    other ways .
    6) If I’m using My Cloud Mirror , instead of using the 2nd drive as a
    mirror can i use it as a storage drive.

    Could you also tell me whats the Difference in My Cloud Mirror and EX2

    THANKS THANKS .

  23. Thanks for the great reviews! Helped a lot!

  24. OOPS! schoolboy error 🙂 Reply fixed now.
    BTW fantastic UT channel very informative Thanks.

  25. how can I map an external drive connected my MyCloud without setting it to
    public.

    I connected Ext. Drv. and I sat it as PRIVATE but when I try to map the
    drive I can not see it??!! 

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