WD My Cloud Home: Budget-Friendly Storage in 2024?

WD My Cloud Home offers an affordable entry point into Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions. It boasts features like automatic photo and video backup, the potential to host a Plex Media Server for personal streaming, and the ability to migrate data from Google Drive and other cloud services. In this video, we'll thoroughly evaluate the WD My Cloud Home's performance in 2024 to determine its true value proposition.
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[@celticlofts]

So evidently it only has a 100/100 Ethernet connection rather than the 1 gigabit connection making for slow file transfer rates. You would think that in this day and age everything would be gigabit..

[@techforlife91]

Faulty cable, an updated video will come soon. But yes,the speeds that your seeing is for 100. With the cable changes I'm getting around 120-150MB/s

[@harrycoffey9427]

Need to google this mate. 1gb Ethernet equates to 125mbps transfer speed.

[@VishnuHB]

Is it discontinued? I saw posts in reddit that WD no longer support home cloud

[@techforlife91]

WD didn't discontinue the home cloud support, is one of their best selling. Maybe the post you saw was referring on an older wd that doesn't receive any more updates. With an older one is safe to use it as an SMB but is not safe to use it over thr internet. But all models from 2016 up are still supported at the moment

[@Khadjs1804]

WD Tech Support can’t even help me connecting my Windows 11 PC via SMB or map it as a local drive in the same network.

[@techforlife91]

Did you manage to do it? If not let me know what year was release, i can tell you the steps

[@Khadjs1804]

@@techforlife91 Just got it 2 months ago. Tech support can’t do anything, I even let them have control over my PC to set it up via remote desktop but they fail. I can do SMB with my Macbook but not Windows 11 though.

[@techforlife91]

@@Khadjs1804 go to www.mycloud.com . and log in, then on your wd cloud home go into settings then click on (your name) My cloud Home , Go to manage device, and go to Local network access
, turn on Local network access , then make a Local user name and password. Once this is done open FILES in windows, here on the top bar ( Normally opens in Home by default, click there and it will let you to write , add : \\youripadress ( for example mine is \\192.168.0.117 ) and press enter, windows then will ask you to sign in with the username and password , here you put the username and password you creater on the Local one ( Local user name and password) , and press ok.
or , once you put a local user and password , go to NETWORK, and wait for a couple of secs, you will find there the WD MY CLOUD , double click on it,put user name and password and thats it

[@seaser11]

not worth to buy any more :: desktop app are not supported wd is worst company : i have the same 8 terabyte

[@techforlife91]

True, depends what you need it for. I never used desktop apps i only use smb .

[@cullis63]

@@techforlife91 I have the MyBookLive Duo also cant get it working properly , what is the smb and where can I download it?