If by chance you need support at any point WD includes ‘Learning Centre’, a useful source of information on how to use & set up your My Cloud. They’ve made it really simple to use & navigate and although it isn’t the most exciting interface, it’s a preferable trade off for ease of use. Once you log in to your WD My Cloud dashboard (you’ll have a shortcut on your desktop), you’ll have the option to set individual user permissions, set up remote access and even control access to specific folders – all via your web browser. You can of course add & remove folders as you please, but I like that they’ve created defaults for an easy start. Once it’s all set up, My Cloud will appear with three default folders: Public, SmartWare and TimeMachineBackup (for Mac backups). Simply connect the power supply, plug in the ethernet cable to the router and that’s it – My Cloud is automatically recognised by your WiFi network (and devices) so there won’t be any complex configuration involved. Getting started is very much a plug & play affair. On the outside, the device maintains the brand’s usual design style with the single noticeable change being a white glossy plastic body rather than their usual black. Around the back of the drive, there’s an ethernet port for wired connectivity to your router and a newly introduced USB 3.0 port – usable for direct photo uploads or as an expansion port to bump up My Cloud’s storage capacity. A Familiar Lookįor anybody already familiar with WD’s My Book Live range of network hard drives, My Cloud is essentially a refreshed, updated and rebranded version. This isn’t a revolutionary concept by any means, but My Cloud is Western Digital’s attempt to make personal cloud storage a more accessible thing to the average Joe. The concept is simple, with a personal cloud you gain full control over your digital content and instead of paid subscriptions, it involves a one off, very reasonably priced purchase of £129.99 for the entry level 2TB model (also available in 3TB & 4TB). As a solution, Western Digital launched My Cloud, a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device that lets you have your own personal cloud.

Working with cloud services like Dropbox or Google Drive is easy, fast and efficient, but for a while now there have been concerns about levels of data privacy & security.

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