Which makes this a great backup system as well

I hope there is a more robust and reliable system out there.

The system works with any 3.5" hard drive, and the site recommends the WD Red

The cooling system is a total failure on the level of how Microsoft Surface Pro's failure was before they updated the firmware

this is a great system especially for beginners that aren’t sure on how to set up an NAS or even those that

For instance, these devices had known vulnerabilities for months, that left people's systems susceptible to hacking, but WD didn't notify owners, or publish any real information on the problem(s).Search for "wd my cloud vulnerability" for more info.

Good dependable system.

Also, I've heard that connecting a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) to this is half useless, since it only shuts down the hard drives, not the system as well

The cooling system is a total failure on the level of how Microsoft Surface Pro's failure was before they updated the firmware

Overall the system is good, we are able to access the files over internet connection even from Iphone.

I have several USB drives connected to a headless server, and I wanted to create a single point of backup for those individual devices, as well as system imaging (i.e.: Time Machine) and generally make all of my data accessible to any machine on the network

This is an amazing NAS system when it works

Create the shares that you need and the system is ready to go

The issue is the cooling system kicks in

Still, this system isn't exactly working as expected and the software issues are really frustrating

That's because I want MyCloud to be a closed system available onsite only.

The issue is the cooling system kicks in

I did really love this system, but there were many areas of improvement being virtually no how to articles especially compared to ReadyNAS and Synology.

For average use though, maybe, but ironing out some of the issues that are caused by WD's own implementation will go a long way for having the "perfect cloud storage solution".What prevented me from giving 1 or 2 stars is just how feature rich the Web UI is and what you can achieve with it, and how surprisingly reliable the system is, even with a 500 GB WD blue drive added as a backup

Copying files to and from the NAS is only about half as fast as copying between PCs, usually about 40MB/s on Windows's speed indicator

Copying files to and from the NAS is only about half as fast as copying between PCs, usually about 40MB/s on Windows's speed indicator

Easy online setup I used a 3T toshiba hard drive I had laying around