Western Digital's My Cloud has done more than any other device to popularise the idea of a NAS as a personal cloud, and you won't find a cheaper or smaller way of getting one up and running.

The WD My Cloud is a hard drive that connects to the web via your home network. Here's our WD My Cloud review.

While cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Box.net, SpiderOak, and more offer decent ways to

– Super simple pluginandgo setup; – USB 3.0 for expansion; – Mobile app autosync is pretty slick; – WD2GO system makes users not have to think about how to get to their data

– Seemingly no way to opt out of WD2GO; – Horrible issues getting WD2GO to work on OS X; – Unable to connect remotely on OS X; – Two year warranty when the drive instead normally has a three year warranty

Western Digital's My Cloud has done more than any other device to popularise the idea of a NAS as a personal cloud, and you won't find a cheaper or smaller way of getting one up and running.

It appears to have a faster process or than the older 4TB model that I had. In the old version, the web based user interface was so sluggish when copying files. Even when using their wdmycloud app to show videos and photos, it was slow to bring up a list of files. Much faster now.

I bought this networked hard drive so that I could stream music and videos to both computers and smart tv's. It was a handy way of sharing files without having to remove and connect hard drives all the time. Although the premise of the product is appealing, it does have some shortfalls.

Documentation could be clearer. The instructions packed with the Mycloud told me to go to a web site. The site did not look like or behave like the documentation. finally figured it out. If your not a network geek, you will need to learn about attaching/mounting a network drive via Windows/MAC.

Today will be call #4 with WD about this drive. Keeps dropping off the network with the host PC so I cannot get my files on it. Many reviews from other sites state the same so I am not confident that I will keep this bad product long...

I have attached a 6TB USB3 Hard disk to it and functions perfectly. The My cloud portion of it works well, unless you want to access your control panel. It is limited on ram, when you strip services it is a rock solid performer.

Works fairly well in Ultimate Edition Linux (writing software to auto detect it) I am by hobby an Operating System Architect & Leading Programmer; I see at peak 110 MB/s via avg 90 MB/s, 80 at the low; Make sure you have Gigabit; Cables mean a ton, do not bottleneck yourself.

I have a Quad Core Atom running Win 10 (Voyo V2) used as a media center in the bedroom and can not find the NAS even with Western Digitals software & hard wired; It has a USB Netgear AC 6200 wireless adapter, I am currently fighting with, because the integrated is something to be desired.

easy to setup and use, allows me the access I need to my infomation no matter where I am