WD Western Digital My Cloud Home Duo WDBMUT0080JWT-NESN 8TB Network Attached Storage (White)

This is the third WD My Cloud unit I have purchased. First one failed after several years of working well. It was a duo and had two drives. Unfortunately the failure was in the way it communicated and not in either hard drive. Since I am not sending my unit off with my data in it, I tried to salvage the two drives full of data. WD stores the RAID data in an almost unrecoverable format, so I lost the data. I did gain two working hard drives out of the failure however. With this said, the WD Home Cloud systems are great for home storage and should almost always be recoverable if a usual type problem happens. I bought a single and another double (duo). The way they move data is almost bulletproof and not subject to transfer failures as with many systems. With the way they are securely accessed, you have all your data and photos with you on your mobile devices anywhere you go. I think every home and small office would benefit from owning one. Just one bit of caution; NEVER TRUST ANY SINGLE SYSTEM WITH ALL YOUR DATA STORAGE AND BACKUP!! Yes, The unit that failed was backed up elsewhere. BTW, these can easily transfer their data to another USB backup device by plugging it into the back of the device.

Mejor busca en otro lugar, este producto no sirve, no se pudo configurar ni con toda la ayuda en línea de WD. Después de revisar con soporte técnico, no tuvo reparación. Lamentablemente pasó mucho tiempo entre que lo compré y lo usé como para devolverlo a Amazon y el proceso de hacer válida la garantía es muy complicado con algunos cobros. Si lo compran como producto restaurado, no les harán válida la garantía

Like many has said, you need to install a WD application to map a z: drive to access the files. You can’t use a network share. One positive thing is that when you are on a laptop and you are traveling, you have the files transparently available at z:, similar to other Cloud drives.

The bad news is that the drive uses a case sensitive file system like those on Linux. Normally you won’t notice it until you try to install applications or use a command line to open files. If you created a file called, ‘My Document.txt’ and you try to open the file by ‘my document.txt’, you get a ‘file not found’ error. This is unacceptable for Windows users. Lots of applications will not work when they are not careful in retaining the original file name in case. It also creates some weird behavior when you can see multiple versions of a file with different cases in the name in the cloud portal but back in Windows, you see only one. You may accidentally work with the wrong one when using different variations of the file name.

UPDATE: returned the product. When one of my Windows backup program (SyncBack) cannot see the Z: drive, that is the end of it. I couldn’t work with projects on the drive directly and I couldn’t work with a local copy and sync my folder back to this WD Home thing. Talked to WD support via email and phone and they offered no help.

I switched to “ASUSTOR AS3202T 2-Bay INTEL Quad-Core NAS”. It has way more features (it has an app store!) and allow me to work with files via SMB shares. Plex app on it can do transcode without any buffering (WD Home constantly buffers). Asustor can even integrate with other network shares and cloud drives seamlessly.