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Model:
WDBVXC0040HWT-NESN
SKU:
5990204
Your price for this item is $159.99
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Customer reviews

Rating 4 out of 5 stars with 1469 reviews

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    Rating 4.2 out of 5 stars

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    Rating 4.0 out of 5 stars

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75%would recommend to a friend

Customers are saying

Customers love the My Cloud Home 4TB Personal Cloud for its easy setup, ample storage, and reasonable price. They appreciate the convenience of being able to access and share their files from anywhere. However, some users have experienced compatibility issues with previous generation drives, software crashes, and data loss.

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 product for cloud sharing

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Easy to store and access data from our own personal cloud anywhere and anytime at no additional subscription cost; Highly recommend for beginners and those who pay a premium on icloud

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great for sibstituting subscription backup.

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Easy setup takes a few attempts to sync up, however once everything is talking it is smooth sailing.

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Time Machine for Mac

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I bought this to backup my Mac while on the network. This is perfect, I set Time Machine for backups and then I set it and forgot it. It really is that easy.

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Easy set up

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

    Only took 10 minutes to set up. Easily connected to my network and set up. Previous models would take forever to mount and set up. The new software makes it very easy to use. The style is really nice too.

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great Apple Airport Replacement

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

    My Apple airports were not functioning as well as when I purchased so the Best Buy team offered me a cost effective yet powerful cloud back up. Set up was very easy and is working great from the road!

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Better than apple cloud

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    Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Easy to setup! Works as it’s supposed to, better than the apple cloud as it’s free

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

    Mac issues

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    The WD My Cloud app is having issues installing on my iMac, but for my Win machine it works great! Access from the internet is flawless & makes a great quick access & backup device.

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

    WD my cloud

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

    I CB really like WD products and had an older my cloud but the new software is better. Great leaving my pics and Filene’s go directly and automatically to my cloud.

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Easy for anyone not using a Mac.

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Super simple to set up and it just works. However not super simple to set up as a time machine for Apple back ups. Not apples fault. WD makes it difficult.

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Peace of mind

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    Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Had too many pictures on our phones and laptop so we got this to send it all to. It’s easy and does automatic uploads from the phone giving us peace of mind if we lose our phones

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    D”S cloud

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I bought this to save money and safety .The cloud download all pictures every day from my cell phone . (Works nice)

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

    Greatest Product Every!

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    Posted . Owned for more than 2 years when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Best Product ever, why did i purchase it years ago. Makes my job so much easier on the road

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Remote access

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great purchase!

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    Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Great product! Great reviews and very helpful advice from the Best Buy guys. Seamlessly connected with my laptop and my other devices. Great purchase!

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

    nice

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    Posted . Owned for 1.5 years when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Works great but has lost some valuse since they disconinued the ability to map drive to your PC

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Great buy

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Inexpensive, easy-to-use. Looking forward to purchasing a larger unit

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    great network storage

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

    upgraded after mybook live became unsupported. Great value for a network-based storage device. easy to set up. Price matched Amazon, so I am a happy camper.

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Very Good

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    Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I converted my DVD/Blue Rays to MP4's. I stored 600 of them on the MyCloud and access them wirelessly to play them on my TV through iTunes. Very nice. No issues at all.

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

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Worth every penny!!

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    I picked this up for my daughter she has so many pictures. She’s not worrying anymore that she will lose and pictures or videos now this seems to be a great product and easy to set up

    I would recommend this to a friend
  • Rated 1 out of 5 stars

    This product is not a replacement for a MyCloud

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

    I happen to have the MyCloud product, and this product in the reviews section. The original MyCloud has significantly better software and quite close to a NAS. You can change the IP address of the product in the software, access the product in the browser, and even use the IP designation of the product on your network as an FTP server. You don't even need to install the software that came with that one esp if you are a power user. This is a joke. You have to plug it in and then install software called WD Discovery which is a nuisance program. You cannot access the hard drive in the browser, nor do you have a bevy of settings to tweak things. For the IP address, I had to capture the MAC address and lock it to an IP address which is more work than I expected to do having used the alternative product. Then, you can't access the drive on a network share -- the software tacks it on the computer as a drive, not a IP, so you can't use the drive an FTP. Worse yet, no DLNA. The MyCloud Home is faster for Plex and that is the only thing you can use. If you use another system that lets you access content as a network share, *forget it.* Meaning you just dropped a bit of money on something that is pretty much an external hard drive that happens to connect to ethernet. Mine will the going back to the store (sadly) the moment I am able to bring it back. I was expecting something more from a product with a similar name, not less.

    No, I would not recommend this to a friend
  • Pros mentioned:
    Ease of use

    Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Good product!

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    Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
    This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.

    Works perfect, good but had to get the Geek Squad to come and set it up for me.

    I would recommend this to a friend