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Model:
WDBCTL0040HWT-NESN
SKU:
2832018
Your price for this item is $179.99

Customer reviews

Rating 4.2 out of 5 stars with 1848 reviews

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  • Ease of Use

    Rating 3.5 out of 5 stars

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88%would recommend to a friend

Customers are saying

Customers find value in the My Cloud 4TB External Hard Drive's ease of use, large storage capacity, and relatively quick setup. Positive feedback also highlights its performance, remote access capabilities, and competitive price. However, some users experienced challenges with the software and interface, suggesting areas for improvement. The instructions could also benefit from greater clarity and detail.

This summary was generated by AI based on customer reviews.

The vast majority of our reviews come from verified purchases. Reviews from customers may include My Best Buy members, employees, and Tech Insider Network members (as tagged). Select reviewers may receive discounted products, promotional considerations or entries into drawings for honest, helpful reviews.
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  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great purchase

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Very straightforward easy install instructions. Blazing fast transfers of photos and video. Easy to transfer pictures from your IPhone or Samsung from anywhere in the world through the free app. Wish I had bought this a while ago.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    My Cloud Is Your Cloud

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    A good device to consider adding to your personal network that allows not only a backup storage, but access to your data when your not at home. That can be important depending on what you're doing. One caution, though. Make sure you have this device on a surge protector. If it suffers any sinificant fluctuations in power, it could permanantly lock up and make the data unrecoverable.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Good solution for single-point storage

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    My only complaint about this product (i.e., the only thing that was worse than expected) is ease of installation. At first, the disk would disappear from my home network from time to time and it was not possible to access using the IP address. Later, after some research, I found that in order for my PC to be able to find the disk all the time I had to assign it a static IP. Other than that, the only tricky part is to access it when connected to a corporate VPN... But I guess that is not a problem I can blame MyCloud for...

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great for onsite storage

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    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Got this for my parents - a computer died and I had a heck of a time trying to recover all of Dad's files... Now there's a storage unit on the network where I can have a full backup of both of their machines. Works like a charm!

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Cons mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 3 out of 5 stars

    OK, but could be better

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Setup is tedious and confusing. Endless different software from WD, never sure which is which. Too much security embedded that you need to turn off to make it work. Locked folders asking for admin permission, but no way to change. In the end it works, but slow to setup, slow upload and download speeds, but does the job but could be a lot better with a little more co-ordinated effort from WD.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 3 out of 5 stars

    Good Drive but...

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Serves well as a cloud drive, but I got it so I can back up to it from a remote location. Apparently, WD removed that feature and the community is very upset about it.

    No, I would not recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great Product

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Tech support was very helpful, had me up and running in just a few minutes.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Nice

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Pretty easy to install. Works well. Wish you could also transfer data via USB connected to PC for initial storage setup.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Like you can have multiple users

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Still learning how it works not its problem my problem not good with setups

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    love it

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    just what i was looking for. lots of researching and i choose this one.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    A gift for my husband

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    We bought, MY CLOUD for my husband .on Fathers Day ....and he is happy ..

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great for storage & accessibility from anywhere!

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Read the specs online and went to Best Buy and the representative was really knowledgeable on the product. We went home and up loaded all our memories and still have space to addon. Great product!! Wish we bought it sooner.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great Product

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This is a great product. It works for me and solves all my cloud needs.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Storage

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Cool cloud

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    Posted .
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I am really glad that we bought this. It has been a lifesaver. I didn't know Macs could have the spinning ring of processing death. Of course they can when you have a million high res photos in your iPhoto drive! This solves the problem. Happiness.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Great Product - Hard setup - Poor Documentation

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I've had my WD Mycloud 4TB for about 2 weeks now. The product is excellent offering great, responsive NAS functionality and a very high function family cloud with good security. But WD needs to work on its setup instructions and documentation. The setup is confusing and not well documented even in their online documentation (no documentation at all comes with the Mycloud). It took me 2 days to understand how to set the system up and I'm an IT pro. But the results are great.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Cons mentioned:
    Speed

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Works great what I expected

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Worked right out of the box with my Mac network. It would be great if the I formation transferred faster. Overall a good purchase.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Easy to install and use

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    This is easy to install and easy to use. I would recommend this product.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Fits the need plus more

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I bought this to just be a backup for my iMac but when I sat it up I discovered that it has some file sharing abilities which is a nice added bonus! I would recommend this to anyone as the setup and usage is very easy.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Price

    Rated 4 out of 5 stars

    Great for cheap cloud storage

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    If your looking for a dependable, cheap cloud drive, this one works great. It's kinda of a pain to set up though.

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    good product

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    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I have two of these and I love them. I back up all my data with them.

    I would recommend this to a friend