WD My Cloud (Back up Harddrive) NAS

Pagan · Mar 14, 2014

So I am an idiot and never backed up my hard drive since 2009 and it crashed causing me mainly to loose 8000+ songs. Lucky enough I was able to grab them all through my three ipods over the years and my iphone. Going forward my house is fully networked and I have been looking at My Cloud through WD. Seems legit with great speed and can act as a media server; currently using PS3 media server.

Does anyone have an experience with a WD My Cloud? I also saw a Seagate Central in the store as well however its not grabbing high reviews like the My Cloud.

Feedback is welcomed.

Brahma · Mar 14, 2014

Get this. Never look back.

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Pagan · Mar 15, 2014

Sure, but with DICKS its $700.

Izo · Mar 15, 2014

Pagan_sl said:
Sure, but with DICKS its $700.

You sound like a shill, Pagan. You put in your own choice of disks and save - not to mention add as you go.

Corndog · Mar 16, 2014

I bought a my cloud a few weeks ago. Basically think of it as dropbox but stored locally. It's pretty nice. To play a movie from it, it buffers for like 3 minutes then uninterrupted playback for the duration of the movie.

Joeboo · Mar 16, 2014

How well does it work with your mobile devices? Is there any sort of mobile app that just automatically backs up pictures as you take them like dropbox does? That's the #1 reason I stay with dropbox, just zero effort to upload pics, but ideally more storage would be nice.

Pagan · Mar 16, 2014

joeboo_sl said:
How well does it work with your mobile devices? Is there any sort of mobile app that just automatically backs up pictures as you take them like dropbox does? That's the #1 reason I stay with dropbox, just zero effort to upload pics, but ideally more storage would be nice.

I am setting it up right now and yes it does have a "dropbox" function and a free app to go with My Cloud. I will work with it later this afternoon after my backup is complete.

Eomer · Mar 16, 2014

Bought one last week, but I haven't really fucked around with any of the features of it. Seems like there's a lot of fancy functionality for sure, but from my perspective I'm not very interested in most of it as I primarily wanted it for a backup drive. And the shitty backup software included can't backup a network share.

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