Mientras tengas acceso a Internet. Es una maravilla. Ya que tienes que crear una cuenta en MyCloud para poder accesar desde fuera de tu casa, o... desde dentro. Muy rápido, muy fácil de manejar. Sin embargo. Si no tienes internet. No podrás accesarlo. A menos que lo hayas dado de alta cómo unidad de red y que no hayas reiniciado el equipo. De lo contrario, te pedirá firmar en MyCloud, pero si no tienes internet. no podrás hacerlo. Accesar sin internet. no es nada sencillo. Es complicado el procedimiento. Ya me pasó en 2 ocasiones que el proveedor falló y no pude sacar un archivo. Por todo lo demás. Excelente! Read more

I see a lot of one-star reviews on this item, and I was about to join those who say that this unit is really slow and buggy. However, my impatience with it soon magnified my impatience with my internet connection. I was just SURE this device was the culprit that was causing the whole thing. Sometimes my Speakeasy speed tests would show speeds in the low-grade DSL range...and other times it would work satisfactorily, in the 12 to 13 Gb/s range. I was just SURE this WD box was dragging the whole thing down. Well...I decided to do a little investigating last night and found that I actually had NO CHANGE in my internet reliability when the MyCloud was completely unplugged (meaning no power cord, and no Ethernet cable connected). So, was my cable internet provider to blame? Well...that wouldn't make any sense, since the MyCloud doesn't rely on a connection to the outside world for internal network file transfers. But, just to get a good baseline for troubleshooting (something I do for a living with private and corporate aircraft) I decided to take my laptop to the router the MyCloud was connected to, and just make a wired Ethernet connection to it. Not only did the MyCloud work just as fast as any other drive on my laptop, but my Speakeasy speed tests were now in the STRATOSPHERE! I was getting a consistent 50+ Gb/s reading. So, obviously, my WiFi connection is to blame. I downloaded a free app for my HTC Evo Droid phone called WiFi Analyzer, and found that it was actually the location of my router and apartment living that was causing all my issues...every issue I've had with my network for the last 6 years can now be attributed to this. That app showed me the MASSIVE number of other routers around me, and some were actually sending a stronger signal to my normal laptop and computer location, on the same channel. I found that my signal to noise ratio for WiFi from my wireless router was TERRIBLE...even though its just a couple of rooms away (950 square foot apartment). So, I decided to move my cable modem/wireless router and MyCloud out to my living room, where most of my stuff will stream to and from. I made a hard-wired Ethernet connection to my gaming rig (which is connected to my surround sound system and my 46" HD TV) and the Speakeasy test on that is consistently above 56Gb/s now. The laptop? I'm getting a reliable 30-40Gb/s now. My MyCloud? I can now access it from anywhere in my apartment, and it acts like its physically attached to what I'm accessing it from. Fantastic speed. As for a complaint I saw about "it does NOT sync"? Western Digital makes no claim in ANY of their documentation that it does. They simply tell you that you can set up a continuous backup which will automatically back up any files that get added. Not sure how anybody can interpret that to mean that it will also delete files that you delete from your primary. What good would that be? Sometimes...at least speaking for me anyway...we accidentally delete things we don't mean to delete...and we even empty the Recycle Bin! Oops...now its gone forever! Or is it? Thanks to how this drive works, you CAN get it back, because IT never deletes ANYTHING without your consent. Which is a good thing! BTW...to the guy who complained about this...it, in fact, DOES know when you've deleted something. Its software marks that file by drawing a line through its filename so you can easily see its something you chose to delete on your primary. BUT...its not actually gone on the MyCloud...you can get it back if you deleted it by mistake! This is a problem for you?!! LOL! Sorry...just have to give you a hard time over that. GREAT PRODUCT if you take your time to troubleshoot poor performance. It even led me to fix my entire network...and now I'm KICKING MYSELF saying "Why didn't you do this sooner?!!" Read more

I am loving the WD MyCloud (2TB) so far as a replacement for my recently deceased LaCie CloudBox (3TB). After 3 years as what I thought was a reliable and well functioning NAS drive, the more expensive LaCie CloudBox (3TB model) up and died on me one day in November 2016. I am an advanced user and wanted to know more about what might be going on and if there was any possibility of data recovery (only ethernet connection on LaCie CloudBox). I opened up the device and found that the HDD inside was a Seagate Barracuda 3TB desktop drive and when I did a quick Google search, there were articles everywhere about how that particular model was prone to spontaneous hard drive death. Long story short, there was not going to be any cheap way (under $2500) to recover the data from the drive so I had to take my loses on that one and find a more reliable network attached storage drive. I did a lot of research before deciding on the WD MyCloud. When it comes to a NAS drive, I didn't want something advanced or expensive and I find that a lot of the options out there are multiple-bay docks and things I would never use. I was just looking for a simple network storage drive where I could create different storage partitions and remotely mount them to my MacBook Pro using the AFP protocol preferably. I also wanted to be able to dedicate a partition to Time Machine so that my MacBook Pro could do backups to my network storage drive in addition to the external thunderbolt drive I use for Time Machine backups. I looked at getting a Time Capsule, but you are unable to create and mount your own partitions for personal storage using a Time Capsule. From what I understand, it is to be used strictly for Time Machine backups, and that was no good for me! The LaCie CloudBox did exactly what I wanted, but I would never buy it again having the disk die on me after 3 years. The closest thing I could find to it with mid-level reviews was the WD MyCloud and I was hesitant because some of the reviews were not great. I decided to take my chances with it and so far, I am loving it and would recommend it over the LaCie CloudBox any day! I am a macOS and iOS user, so this review and information is coming from a perspective using those platforms. Using the WD MyCloud is so simple, installation was very easy and I haven't had any issues with it! Using the web-based dashboard, you can control everything about the MyCloud, including the number of shares you have, the names of them, who can access them, the number of users and much more. There is a setting for Time Machine to control how much space (GB) you want to allot to backups. There are many disk tools available for checking disk health and performing troubleshooting. The application for iOS is also great and allows you to sign in using your WD MyCloud account that the device is linked to, or if you are on the same network you can connect right to the device using your credentials. There is also a site (MyCloud Flie Browser) that you can use while away from your device that can access the content on your MyCloud (Read/Write access). The one thing the device is missing that it could definitely use is the Wake on LAN (WOL) function. This is something that the LaCie CloudBox had and it was very useful when the device and hard drive had gone into deep sleep and you could longer access the files, you have the ability to remotely wake up the device right from your computer. With the MyCloud, you have to physically go to the device and unplug it and plug it back in, or change the settings for it to not go into sleep mode. In conclusion, as long as this device continues to function and does not have hard drive failure a few years in, then I would highly recommend it. The WD MyCloud also has a USB port in addition to the ethernet port, unlike the LaCie CloudBox. This allows for easy backup of the MyCloud to an external device and also allows for piggy backing of another hard drive onto the MyCloud and the partitions from that drive can also be made to mount remotely! There are so many options available with this device, it is hard to go over all of them. I suggest anyone looking for a simple NAS give the WD MyCloud a try! Read more

Si deseas un dispositivo para centralizar toda tu información este es el ideal. Recuerda siempre tener un respaldo ya que este NAS es de solo una bahia por lo que requieres una copia adicional para tener tus datos protegidos al 100. Puedes respaldar a otro MyCloud en tu red ( Single bay o superior ) o a un MyCloud en una ubicación remota ( Mirror o suprerior). Soporta gigabit ethernet probado directamente con cable, si usas wifi la velocidad baja ( no por el NAS sino por las limitaciones inherentes de las redes inalambricas ). Excelente NAS para iniciar a respaldar tu informacion o como dispositivo de almacenamiento compartido ( sin necesidad de un servidor dedicado ). Read more

The 2 Terabyte 'My Cloud' has the design almost of a simple-yet-elegant white box with silver edges and accents. A blue LED for power is the only light in the front. The device operates upright and runs cool and very quiet. The guide's images show how to connect My Cloud to a router. Once it's connected and powered, you simply open a browser to the setup URL provided in the guide. The URL redirects to a page with an image of the My Cloud device. Clicking the image starts setup. Links are presented on screen for downloading the required setup software. A wizard walks you through the quick software installation and then you are asked to provide a username and password to access your personal cloud. The personal cloud is what My Cloud is all about. It's Western Digital's secured cloud service that lets you access your data stored on My Cloud from anywhere. Once setup completes, you can create users, start uploading files to My Cloud, download mobile apps to access the device from Android or iOS, or backup your PC or Mac. The device comes with three preconfigured shared folders that from Windows, can be browsed from Explorer: Shared Music, Shared Pictures, and Shared Video. Back in the interface, the Home Page is the first page users see. It shows information in widget-like boxes. One box shows free disk space. There's a an arrow on the square that opens the box to display even more information— a breakdown of how much of the My Cloud space is taken up by music, videos, photos, or "other." I temporarily copied all the information (movies, music...ect) to those folders under User in Windows 8.1. I keep two copies of each folder, one on my third drive in the PC, and again on an external drive. Another box labeled Diagnosis shows information including system temperature, drive status, and firmware version. There's another section labeled Cloud Devices. It's empty save for a plus sign. Clicking the plus sign generated an activation code for users to enter into devices such as smartphones and tablets so these devices can access the data on My Cloud. The interface also provides information such as how many users are setup on the NAS; how many shares are setup; and the state of a feature called Content Scan. This is an option you can turn on or off where My Cloud will continual scan your home network for multimedia content. You can set permissions for users for any of the folder shares. I did find setting permission a little unintuitive, although once I figured out what I had to do it worked fine. You can set permissions by accessing the User or Folder sections of the interface. However, setting permissions' options were disabled in when I tried to apply permissions to a few test users and folders. I finally figured out that all folders by default are set with public permissions, meaning anyone has Read and Write access to all folders by default. I had to disable the Public sharing on any folder and then I was able to configure permissions. It may take some users a bit to figure this out, as the need to disable Public sharing is not made explicit in the interface (I found out what to do in support). Safepoints is a feature that allows users to take a snapshot of the entire My Cloud disk and restore the disk if needed. The snapshot is saved to an external USB drive attached to My Cloud or to another storage location on the network. I tested the feature by attaching a Western Digital My Passport USB drive to My Cloud. I had to close the browser and re-open it before the My Passport drive showed up in the My Cloud interface. To start using Safepoints, a wizard walks you through selecting the device you want to save the snapshot, giving the image a name and description, and setting up the schedule for snapshot taking. The feature works very much like Apple's Time Machine. In addition to the above capabilities, My Cloud supports SSH and FTP access to files, DLNA, iTunes and email notifications whenever there may be a system issue with the device. Working within the interface and applying settings was a bit peppier in performance than with the Seagate Central. One aspect of the My Cloud that makes me leery is that you are not prompted for login when you click on the shortcut from the desktop to get into the dashboard and I did not see a way to add authentication. The interface just opens up. The cloud in "My Cloud" is the remote access feature. The good thing about My Cloud is that data remains on the device in your possession and you are simply using Western Digital's cloud service to connect. Your data is not stored on its servers. You actually set up access to the cloud service when you first set up My Cloud. You are asked for an email address to which an activation link is sent. Once activated, you are given the link to log into the WD service. From this link, you can access the My Cloud from any browser no matter where you are located. I did purchase the pro version of WD Smartware Pro v. 2.4.1.9, also on the WD Cloud part of the site, the extra downloads are all there, Dropbox is another you'll need to install on other machines. Read more