This hard drive is connected to your ethernet router via an ethernet cable and not to your computer so you can backup any computer or phone on your network to this drive

Once you sign-up with a login and password it will find your hard drive automatically once you get it initially set-up

So, you can't really directly connect a computer to this drive, and pulling files off a thumb drive or other hard drive can only be done through the application software.

The drive could not be accessed from my network and web connection denied access to the account set up from the my cloud app.

Identity thieves will just be one password away from cracking the drive and getting at its contents

This is because the drive is setup by default as RAID 1 which is safer for your data in case one hard drive fails but gives you half of the advertised storage

The first was the link provided in the very sparse documentation that comes with the hard drive.

I've used external hard drives before; I have tons of photo, video and documents that I've needed and wanted to save over the years

and you have a shared drive accessible on all your computers (and iPad).

So I was watching a YouTuber (JesssFam) and she was sponsored by WD and used this external hard drive

You could increase the size of the hard drives as well as long as you use two matched/identical hard drive is maintaining a Raid 1 configuration

What is this item?A 4TB Hard Drive connected by a LAN cable directly to your home router/modem.

My initial assumption that the USB port could be used for data transfer from a computer was incorrect, both because full-size male-to-male USB cables are rather uncommon, and because, according to the manufacturer, the USB port is provided for "convenience" to pull files from an existing thumb drive or external hard drive.

I do have the drive up and running, and even now the 'bundled' software only works for hard drives with a direct USB connection

Love WD hard drives but had to drop 1 star as these might be more powerful compared to the old My Cloud drives but they are a lot less flexible.

So, for me, this is a very large but not-very-useful hard drive which, on a final note, makes a lot of fan noise, even when no activity is happening.

I also feel like it will take time to figure out how this device "fits" into my other available network and cloud options (backup drive, NAS drive, cloud services, etc.)

Where this drive really stands out and excels, if you ask me, is in photo sharing and backup

The drive is rather attractive, with a white top with the WD logo, a silver bottom with a diamond-like pattern, and all teh ports located on the back

like you can a normal external hard drive (or a NAS) because it doesn't actually dock in the system

You then download the app, sign up for a username and password and can save content such as documents, photos, videos from your mobile device, computer, etc, directly to this hard drive remotely as it is your own personal Cloud Storage

This was by far the easiest back-up system/wifi hard drive that I’ve ever installed

For the money you could buy a 2 bay Nas and 2 hard drives like a Synology 218, Net Gear 212 or Qnap231p or so many other choices and 2 hard drives

At that point I could connect the jump drives and the other brand of hard drive and drag and drop them onto the MCHD.

Based on my experience, I cannot recommend this drive

For direct access to the drive using Windows explorer, there is also a program you can download to any of your machines which makes the drive look like a local drive on your computer for copying3/accessing files

, I might upgrade to the dual disk drive that provides added reliability because the drives mirror each other so that one of the drives can fail and your data will still be available.

The direct transfer speed from an external hard drive plugged into the MyCloud is pretty impressive, it's the downloading them back from it that takes forever

It also has limited functionality and the company does not supply any added software to enhance value here as they do with their traditional, USB-connected hard drives

It's easy to access the hard drives and remove them if needed

This setup protects your data in the case a hard drive fails.

I have two other hard drive

If one drive fails the other saves the data and you can replace the failed drive

I took matters into my own hands, tore it apart and put the hard drive in my Hard Drive Enclosure Docking Station

I keep a copy of what is on the My Cloud on my PC which has a terabyte hard drive.

I love that I can plug in an external hard drive and it will permit me to download files without an internet transfer.

The main difference is that I can edit my office documents by accessing DropBox on the web while I cannot do that with the my cloud home dual drive.

like you can a normal external hard drive (or a NAS) because it doesn't actually dock in the system

Couldn't be simpler: inside the box is the hard drive, a start card, a power cable, and an ethernet cable

The my cloud home dual drive compares well with a service like Drop Box, which shouldn't be the standard for a personal machine.

Great home cloud hard drive

it creates a duplicate of the content in case you lose a drive

avoid this unit at all costs, It will not work as you expect a network drive to.

Love WD hard drives but had to drop 1 star as these might be more powerful compared to the old My Cloud drives but they are a lot less flexible.

I'll go back to external hard drives..

I do have the drive up and running, and even now the 'bundled' software only works for hard drives with a direct USB connection

The DUO seems nice too having a redundant hard drive storing all my (once, someone else's) cloud information right in my home.

Technically, the 5TB Raid 1 unit here should be really described as a "2X2TB Raid 1 Cloud storage" drive to clarify what you are really getting for hard drives inside of it!.The Amazon product page wording is a bit "misleading".I found accessing it by internet rather then using the app and within my network was about 10X slower to upload files to the WD

The my cloud home dual drive can also be set to full capacity mode so that all 12TB are available, but the data is at greater risk of loss if a hard drive should fail.

To whit, the drive was very difficult to install on my Windows 10 computer, the install on the mac required some extra steps not described after installing the software, and customer support is virtually non existent

It's not an external hard drive and it's not a NAS and your computer won't recognize it like either one

Reverse to use another hard drive

Very slow drive takes me about a week to backup one folder

I set TimeMachine to backup my iMac hard drive, and it worked fine.

The two hard drives in this unit (Two 4 TB) are easily removable and replaceable

My collection of digital stuff, music, databases, documents and photos has expanded over the years to consume several external hard drives

I had been debating about getting an external hard drive for about a year and half

The My Cloud is a connected hard drive, a sort of personal DropBox

Since most of my Seagate hard drives are no longer compatible with the new Apple OSX (ugh), I picked up this drive hoping for a new backup drive with some added cloud sync features, which is what the description looked like to me.

Once you’ve loaded your data onto the drive, it is now accessible via the “cloud” on your secure drive

OVERALL: This is a great backup drive for your

It does not work with the Cloud Drive and there is NO WAY to connect this hard drive to your computer without upgrading

I was a bit skeptical about how easy this drive would be to set up, but it actually was as easy as promised

This is a powerful hard drive to have in your home since it does so much more than store files.-- Debbie Lee Wesselmann

The USB port is a standard, USB 3.0 female port used to connect external drives (e.g. thumb drives or other hard drives) so that you can port information to your cloud drive

There is no question that 6 or 12TB is a significant amount of data to lose and, although the drive likely won't be full for some time, if ever, it's still risky to trust your data to nothing more than a pair of redundant drives and luck

It visibly resembles an external hard drive, but that's not really what it is.

The bad news is that the drive uses a case sensitive file system like those on Linux

I still believe that Western Digital makes some of the most reliable inexpensive hard drives in the business, and I love

I still believe that Western Digital makes some of the most reliable inexpensive hard drives in the business, and I love

You cannot backup files that are saved to any kind of cloud service like Microsoft OneDrive to this hard drive

You can control everything concerning this drive from an app on your phone (which is remarkably sophisticated for WD) or similarly on your PC (there are apps for

Last time I checked, the whole point of cloud services like those are that you DON'T have to have a physical hard drive to hold the data: they both offer document version history for varying amounts of time, can be selectively synced to a computer, and make document retrieval easy (even deleted versions) for the user at home and on smartphones.

This is a powerful hard drive to have in your home since it does so much more than store files.-- Debbie Lee Wesselmann

ACTUAL HARD DRIVE SPACE

You can set it to use all 6 TB of data for backup but then if one of the two hard drives crash you will lose all your data

The drives are only accessible via the mobile or desktop apps

I have previously achieved this by running a computer 24/7 with the folder for cloud service providers stored on an always-connected external hard drive

There is no local access to the device, differentiating it from traditional NAS storage devices, and eliminating the possibility of using it as a standard external hard drive

The easiest external drive, I have ever setup

These are not hot-swappable drives; you need to turn the unit off to swap drives

We were looking for a solution to replace our old system of a Mac Mini and connected hard drives that we used for a media library and a place to sync our iPhones

Depress the button for the hard drive, slide it up and out and remove the tracks on each side

I was disappointed that this hard drive doesn’t support long file names