WD - My Cloud 2TB External Hard Drive (NAS) - White

At first, the "cloud" would disappear from my network....ao after a few days of doing the power-off routine, I put in a complaint case to WD, and within short, I had some proposed solutions, which I thought I tried correctly, but it didn't take, so I tried the paper-clip reset again, and this time it worked, and it has been reliable ever since, I can recommend it.

I purchased this for a client for a local backup and cloud storage system. It was easy for me to setup and configure. It has plenty of granular configurations for personal or small business use. They remote site is easy to use and configure for remote storage syncing. I will definitely purchase this item again for anyone looking for a great backup system.

Perfect product for home use easy to install, small footprint and would recommend to anybody.

I used this product for small business data storage and it worked great. I might need to get another that have larger storage capacity.

This backup device is such a good idea! I don't want all of my stuff archived on some evil empires server, nickel and dimeing along they way. I suggest you do the initial backup to this device with the cat5 cable so that you don't spend 2 days of Wifi usage doing the first backup. After that wireless works great. I Like having access to all videos, photos, scanned receipts, music available on my phone anytime without using phone device storage.

Note that I am using Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, so these remarks may or may not apply to users on Windows or Mac. So this thing is basically a stripped down Linux server with a single, large hard drive and a built-in web server. You can access the system on your local network with desktop or mobile apps, or directly via the built-in web server . Your data can also be made available over the web from anywhere with a little additional set up. I have played with the cloud access and it seems to work fine, though it's a little slow. I haven't used it for anything serious, so I can't make any further comments. I've been using the device as a media server as well as a network attached backup device. It serves fairly well in both cases. It's fast enough to serve as a media streaming device, and I've never had any issues streaming full-HD video over my N-class wireless. But it's a bit slow when doing my weekly backups, transfer drops as low as 3MB/sec when moving files over the wireless network. The shares on the device are exposed as Windows Shares, and I am accessing them with a Linux laptop. This could be the cause of the less-then-stellar performance, and a bit of tweaking may help. My backups run unattended at night so it hasn't been an issue for me. I'm very happy with this NAS device. You can't beat it for the price.

For the price this works fine. It is not super fast but then I don't have Gigabit ethernet either. Works fine copying small chunks of data (8 - 10 gb) but when I tried to copy 70 gb of files in one session it hung up. If you leave it open in explorer with out activity it will time out and be unavailable. If you close the window and open it up again it works fine. Has worked great every time from my cell phone. Setup is not intuitive. Technical skills a definite bonus. Needed support on 2nd day and they were very helpful.

I live in the sticks. I mean a cow field, and so I got this as a plan to save room on my phone which I can't update or replace that often. Cause I need the room on it for other things. So I started transferring over movies, and other things. So one day while in town I decided while waiting to fire it up, and give it a try, and watch a movie. Nope. My home speed of 1.5mbps was like: You can't do this. I'm sure if I had faster speeds it would be great. It just can't deal with slow upload speeds I'm limited too. So beyond that. ITs a great thing to have. I love I can access my pictures anywhere, and share them. Thats the biggest bonus, and #1 reason I did get this.