WD 8TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud

I bought this to replace my old one, well to begin with it was OK, stored loads of photos both locally and in the cloud. I though used to use by previous as a NAS I shortly found out that this is not really a NAS as it stopped for no aparent reason allowing me into the unit. I got in touch with their support who were amazing but could not sort out my problem. After many hours on the Chat and then phone and remote access they asked me to send some data logs. I did this and after three days they said there was one user and it wasnt me. I eventually remembered I had asked a friend to access it so I could send a file. Well eventually I found out that I did have access myself and accessed it locally and got all my data back. I will never use it as a NAS as I was told by WD it is not to be used as one as I should only use it as a BACK up and not a main drive. So to sum up I now have a lovely unit in the corner which will only be used for PLEX as it is good for that unless you want to play 4k films when it doesnt have the correct processors to run them. Hope this helps.

The WD 4TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud is a nifty little device that brings convenience and security to your photo storage needs. It offers some great features that make it an excellent choice for those who want an accessible storage solution without any fuss. Let's start with the setup process, which is an absolute breeze. Even if you're not the most tech-savvy person around, you'll find it a piece of cake to get the My Cloud Home up and running. Just connect it to your local network, and voila! You're ready to start using it in no time. No complicated steps or headaches involved. When it comes to storing your precious photos, this device truly shines. With a whopping 4TB capacity, it offers more than enough room to store a vast collection of pictures. And the best part? It automatically backs up all your photos from your phone as you take them, ensuring that none of those cherished memories are ever lost. Just imagine the peace of mind you'll have, knowing that your photos are safely stored and easily accessible whenever you need them. One standout feature of the My Cloud Home is its ability to invite different accounts to the drive. This means that each person can have their own private space to access their files, and even the owner of the drive won't be able to peek into someone else's stuff unless they're specifically invited. It's like having your own little digital haven where you can keep your files secure and separate from others. Privacy and control at their finest! Now, let's talk about one minor drawback. Some users have reported that transferring files from their computers to the My Cloud Home over the local network can be a bit slow. It's not a dealbreaker by any means, but it's something to keep in mind if you frequently transfer large amounts of data. However, when it comes to photo storage, this device truly excels. In a nutshell, the WD 4TB My Cloud Home Personal Cloud is a fantastic choice for anyone looking for an easy-to-use and reliable device to store their photos. The setup process is a breeze, and it automatically backs up your precious memories from your phone. Plus, with the ability to create private spaces for different users, you can rest assured that your files are safe and sound. Just keep in mind that if you're looking for lightning-fast transfers over the local network, there might be speed bumps along the way. But overall, it's a wonderful option for hassle-free and subscription-free file storage.

IT’S SIMPLE – IF YOU WANT TO SAVE YOUR VALUABLE DATA, DO NOT BUY THIS DEVICE! I run my own technology consultancy business and travel the world with WD portable hard drives in their respective CaseLogic hard cases in my suitcase. They have been all over the world with me in the luggage holds of aircraft travelling to the USA, Europe and beyond. They are reliable, solid and have NEVER let me down. So much so, I now own SIX of them. So, when I saw the WD MyCloud Home, I thought to myself, this would be a great addition to my WD collection, allowing me to use the cloud when travelling, and backing up important business data at home, in the cloud too. As it was, I have just purchased a new MacBook Pro and I needed storage for ALL the data from the HDD of my old MacBook Pro, so this was ideal. It showed up as a mapped drive and could act as a data server. Upon purchase, it was incredibly easy to set up. I plugged it in, set up an account and off I went, loading it with business data, that I could access in the desktop app, in a browser, even on my iPhone or my iPad. Now, trust me, I have run my business for nearly TWENTY years, and I only buy quality equipment with a good reputation. You get what you pay for, as they say, and I thought that paying around £150 for 4TB of storage was a pretty good deal. Not cheap, but then again, not expensive, and I have always held the WD brand is high regard because of their sensible pricing and quality products. That was until 2 days ago, when my WD MyCloud Home simply died. And it died with the entire HDD contents of my older MacBook Pro on it. Luckily, most of that content now resides on my new MacBook Pro, but there were archives in there from older clients, older projects, that I will NEVER get back, which really does piss me off. Yes, I am pissed off about this. Thoroughly pissed off. I have been in touch with WD Support, and Jack has been amazing. Patient, helpful, calling me back. I cannot fault the WD support team, but when they have to tell me that the device has failed and I will never get the data back, I seriously question why WD released the device to market. I was considering putting ALL my family photographs on there last week. If I had done so, I would have lost EVERYTHING, as I would have removed them from the likes of the iPhone, iPad and even the MacBook. The thought of that kind of sentimental loss makes my blood boil. WD are a market leader in data storage. Why, oh why, release a product that does this? Jack from WD Support and I tried EVERYTHING to try to connect to the device. We changed ethernet cables, we connected it directly to my MacBook, all the above, we tried it over a period of about two hours, but nothing. The device won’t power up properly, and when you log in via the WD Discovery app, it just shows as offline, with a message saying the device is offline or rebooting. We tried a hard reset, but again, NOTHING. WD have offered me a replacement device. Sure, that’s great. The existing one is dead, so a new one is due under the warranty. But that WON’T get my data back. Nor will it get my money back from Amazon, as I am now out of the 30-day period. Sure, you might say that I should have another backup. Well, I do. I use iDrive as a cloud-based backup tool, and I also have the majority of the data that was one the WD MyCloud Home on a WD portable hard drive, but it still DOES NOT excuse WD from the fact that this device FAILED and it was less than FOUR MONTHS old! All it has done is sit on the same shelf as my internet router since it was set up. It has not been dropped. It has not been unplugged. IT JUST STOPPED WORKING. So, the warning is right there at the beginning of this review. DO NOT BUY THIS DEVICE! If you have any data you value, DO NOT PUT IT ON ONE OF THESE DEVICES! Period, full stop, end of story. (PS – If there was a ZERO rating for this device, it would have got a big ZERO).

I opted for this as my OLD my book live (3TB) is pretty much full and I like the ability to stream my music, photos and videos on the go. My book live is a discontinued product, so when I saw this 6tb drive for a little over what I paid for my 3tb my book live several years ago, I jumped at the chance. Its a bit of a mixed bag though... The good: - pretty speedy drive. I get 100+MB sustained read and write speeds from the drive. This being attached to a 1Gbps router, I suspect that the drive can achieve faster speeds but is limited by the bandwidth of the router and Cat 5e cable. Compare this to the old My book love, that reaches a peak of around 65MB read speeds and wrote around 34MB - so a massive improvement over that. - The ability to automatically back up from an external media source (be this a USB drive, another WD drive, a cloud service such as Dropbox, Google drive etc). The not so good: - There's no dashboard to log into like the my book live (ie. You would go to the IP address of the drive and you could configure everything from there). - The drive stores your data in different locations depending on how you access the drive. This sounds confusing - what I mean is, if you access the drive through its IP address as opposed to the app/desktop software, then you ant access the media that you saved to it locally from the app/desktop software. And the opposite is true (can't access it locally if it was stored on the drive via the app). Whilst this mat not bother some, it's a BIG issue for me. For example, I stream a lot of media from the drive through my Amazon firestick. There is no app for the Firestick to access the drive, so I have to manually input the driver's IP details into the firestick (VLC player, Kodi etc) to be able to access the media. But that means that I can't access those files on my phone through the app - as they are stored in different locations on the drive. So I've resigned this drive to be a purely home media server, and use my old my book live as one that I can access remotely. For someone that isn't bothered about accessing the drive both locally and remotely - and one or the other will suffice - then this is a brilliant drive. The reason that I've kept a hold of it and not sent it back is because my old drive does what I need it to and use this as a cheapish media server only.

This product is very easy to install and use, ensure you download the WD Discovery app. The support is not so good, you keep getting referred to forums and online standard answers if you get a problem, it seems to be impossible to get a person you are able to explain a problem to. Another thing that is not so good is that encryption tools do not work well with this drive, I encrypt before uploading as problems occur trying to encrypt directly, or if adding files to an encrypted folder. Having said these things, by trial and error I overcame my difficulties and find it the perfect solution for some uses, for those more tech-minded, it is possibly better to buy an old PC and set it up as a server using one of free server apps from the Gnu community. It is a good buy for those wishing a simple solution and who do not trust, or want to pay for an online cloud.

We bought this after I pressed a button on my MacBook and EVERYTHING disappeared! It was a very scary 5 minutes before it all returned as it was!! This amazing bit of tech has proved brilliant for us! Super simple to set it up. I didn't do this, but it took my other half about 20 minutes. All phones and tablets now have a back up stored safe! My other half especially likes it as all his music has now been backed up and he can listen to it from the cloud on his phone in the van without it clogging up storage on his phone. I like it because it has all of my documents and photos stored safely away. It's like having your very own personal cloud. The only thing I would say is slightly a pain, if I was being really picky, and that would be having to save everything twice. So I can hit save on my MacBook, but I then have to go in the cloud, add the file and delete the old one. There may be a quicker way, but I haven't found it yet and it's likely me being anal having to save everything each time I do it, rather than a monthly or weekly back up! But I would definitely recommend this! Does everything it says it will and definitely puts my mind at ease knowing everything is safe!

This does exactly what it says in terms of backing up photos from a phone and generally is an out of the box solution. The iOS app is very easy to use and provides a simple solution to backing up photos. If you have Mac based computers this will also easily be found by the Mac for Time Machine backups. However, it does not play nice with Macs when just wanting to use it as an additional drive (via finder). I think this is a combination of the new Mac OS and the drive software itself. If you have the latest M1 Macs the desktop software doesn't work yet either, the only way you can access the drive is via the web interface. Other things to note are that this isn't for advanced users. There is limited options in the menus and, naturally, if you have given other people space on the drive (this is super easy to do and quite a nice feature), you cannot see their files even as an administrator. The final point to note is that how, for us, it hogs your internal network bandwidth, so much so that it prevented us from accessing the internet when it was transferring the initial bulk of all our photos. The only way we found to improve this slightly was to change the supplied CAT 5e cable for a standard CAT 5 cable, thus reducing the capacity (And speed sadly) of the file transfer to the drive. Other than that we have been turning it off when it presents an issue and then back on for doing the backups.

Hi Everyone! So I used to be a seagate fan but I knew I needed to upgrade my storage and shopped around. My decision was to purchase this. Firstly this isn't the cheapest Cloud Storage Device but its also not the most expensive, so why did I purchase this one? Firstly it doesn't look that bad its quite a neat design and although no one really sees it I wouldn't mind having it on display. Next, the reviews on other sites for WD products are great! Customer support seems to be something they are good at. 3rd easy setup... So in reality what is this really like...? Im an apple product fan, we have 2 mac's, iPhones and iPad in the house and all are backed up seamlessly to the device wirelessly. Not just that but it works without even thinking about it and set-up was very quick and WD continue to support the apps by providing software updates. One thing I love about this is the ability to access the drive from anywhere and share (or not share) with anyone, it's great to give family members their own allocated space and they know that it would still remain private. So all in all I would recommend this product.

Good product.

Great product I am using it and there is no problem ✌🏼😎

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Skönt att a eget cloud i egen regi, och smidigt att kunna komma åt allt från alla enheter och varifrån som helst oavsett märke etc......, kan inte lova fler stjärnor direkt...., måste ju använda en tid men gissar på att den kan både bli en stjärna till som en enhet till med tiden....

Esperienza d’uso: Ho acquistato il WD My Cloud Home 4TB per gestire in modo centralizzato foto, video e documenti personali, evitando di dipendere da servizi cloud esterni a pagamento. Lo uso sia da PC che da smartphone e finora ha superato le mie aspettative. Cosa mi è piaciuto: Configurazione semplice: L’installazione è guidata dall’app WD My Cloud Home, e in pochi minuti il dispositivo è pronto all’uso, anche per chi non è esperto. Accesso remoto intuitivo: Posso accedere ai miei file da qualsiasi dispositivo e luogo, tramite app o browser, senza dover configurare complicate VPN o indirizzi IP. Capacità ampia e scalabile: I 4TB permettono di archiviare migliaia di foto in alta risoluzione, video in 4K e backup di più dispositivi senza preoccupazioni. Backup automatico: È possibile programmare backup automatici dai PC e dai dispositivi mobili, così non si rischia di perdere dati importanti. Condivisione semplice: Posso creare link condivisibili per amici o colleghi senza far accedere direttamente al mio cloud personale. Cosa migliorerei: Velocità di trasferimento: Nonostante la connessione Ethernet, il trasferimento di file molto grandi a volte risulta un po’ lento, soprattutto in upload remoto. Funzionalità limitate per utenti avanzati: Chi cerca un NAS con gestione RAID, app di terze parti o configurazioni avanzate potrebbe trovare il dispositivo un po’ troppo “basic”. Considerazioni finali: Il WD My Cloud Home 4TB è un’ottima soluzione per chi desidera un cloud personale semplice da usare, senza complicazioni e con una buona capacità di archiviazione. Perfetto per famiglie, fotografi amatoriali e chi vuole tenere sotto controllo i propri dati senza ricorrere a servizi esterni a pagamento.