Reddit reviews WD 4TB My Cloud Personal Network Attached Storage - NAS - WDBCTL0040HWT-NESN

Power drill set for sure - something I would never think of but oh so totally useful.

I make sure to recommend the Instant Pot every time this question pops up here. It's the most used gadget in my kitchen now.

We also put a NAS on the registry. If you don't have a good backup system, it's definitely worth figuring something out for all the wedding, honeymoon, etc. photos to come.

Something like this would work fine. Very easy to setup

My daughter has a youtube channel and I shoot in 4k for that and fill my memory card really fast as well. I got a WD mycloud and can upload everything to it wirelessly from anywhere. Its really nice and better than any other cloud service as I still have physical access to it!

Hypothetical question, and forgive me for my naivety:

Would Videostream work if I would to purchase a NAS?...Llet's say this one? I recently started using plex and my laptop is my server. I was looking into network attached storage devices and found that many are incompatible with plex. What I am hoping is this would open up the door on more options for clouds that I could access remotely AND cast with Chromecast. Thoughts?

Pretty much this.

I remember I used Paragon NTFS and I lost files before.

There are plenty of NAS solutions you can connect to your router and set it up as an SMB and share files over gigabit ethernet -- pretty affordable too. You don't need to setup a full fledged server for this.

Maybe something along this:
https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Personal-Network-Attached-Storage/dp/B00EVVGAD0/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1474665314&sr=1-1&keywords=nas+external+drive

It's not the only way. You just have to upload the file to a location that isn't going to re-encode it; usually a device on your local network. Or a cloud service that you know doesn't re-encode files either by default or option.

For example, my Wd Mycloud has a great iPhone app that will upload my files, no conversion at all. Then I can get use them on a Mac, windows, whatever I'd like.

If you do find yourself wanting to watch movies, burn all of them to a NAS, network attached storage, like this one and attach it to your router.

Most smart TVs have that availably to browse for network attached storage so a few clicks of a button and you have a movie on.

If you need to upgrade your router the Asus RT87u has great range especially for multi story houses and more features than most people will know what to do with.

I'll save it. Honestly I don't know if I'll get around to it. I was bored during Christmas break so that's why I decided to start styling my subs at all. Now I'm back to school and work I have the opposite problem. /r/SunnyFlare still isn't styled. And even though it's Spring Break right now, a) one of my classes assigned me a ton of reading, and b) I've had to deal with not one, but two hard drive failures this week. First the one in my laptop, and then last night the ext4 journal of the drive (it only has one partition) housing my /home folder got corrupted and it seems like that drive is about to physically fail as well.

The laptop drive was completely unrecoverable (I heard clicking sounds in the couple minutes before it completely died so I think it was a head crash but I'd need to open it up to be sure). The /home might still be recoverable, but I'm not sure yet. I fortunately had a spare drive I was planning to use to upgrade my storage but looks I'm having to press it into service now and conveniently it's the same size as the drive I already had (1TB) I booted into a live session and attempted to # dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdY bs=64K conv=noerror,sync but the problem was # blkid was having trouble with the drive that was failing and refused to give me any output, other tools had the same problem. So I was forced to essentially put drive letters in blind. I guessed "if" correctly (for some reason reddit doesn't want to be consistent with it's code block formatting) but for "of" the drive I guessed was...the USB my live session was on. I lost no data doing that but the drive was already premade and the files were stored on the /home folder, so I am now redownloading them on the laptop (which is already up and running again).

Speaking of which, do you have any experience or suggestions for a NAS? In order to prevent this from ever happening again I'm planning on getting one that's about 6TB, which will be able to back up my 1TB laptop drive, my 128GB SSD on my desktop (responsible for booting both Arch and Windows and holds some games and commonly used programs and games on Windows), my 2TB drive (responsible for other Windows files and some files I share between both OSes) and my 1TB /home drive, plus some extra space for Plex. Is a 2-drive configuration really necessary for something that's essentially a backup of a backup? I'm looking at the 6TB version of this.

Perhaps a compromise and just buy a nas? Wouldn't need to worry about it "playing nice" with both systems...

Check out this deal 4tb, works wirelessly and with pc mac phones and tablets, and tbh 219 for 4tb is a hell of a deal, but you can lower the tv and save some cash

If you decide to get a nas just remember to "map" the drive

Please not though this not a high end nas but essentially an external hdd with networking abilities

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00EVVGAD0/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?qid=1394735987&sr=8-2&pi=SY200_QL40

Saving up for this.

The main reason is I am currently using a rack mount server as NAS and it produces a TON of heat. This little thing creates like none. Also it has more drive space than I currently have.

Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis When I was dead broke, man I couldn't picture this!

Sorry, I shouldn't even use that stupid term in this context. http://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Personal-Network-Attached-Storage/dp/B00EVVGAD0 It's a name some companies are throwing around for these. It's just a personal NAS, plugged into the home router etc.

We mourn together. I ended up switching back to an external harddrive and then some scallywag broke into my house and stole it along with my laptop. Now I have one of these and I keep it stored away. I've never heard of what.cd before, though.

For something like that, just straight file storage, no Plex transcoding or anything, and in that price range, I'd look for something cheap and cheerful like the WD My Cloud NAS:

https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Personal-Network-Attached-Storage/dp/B00EVVGAD0/

I have the 3 TB version doing basically the same thing - no issues so far. Consider also getting a cheap USB 3 drive so you can make backups of your backups too :)

https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Personal-Network-Attached-Storage/dp/B00EVVGAD0/

This might work for you but I haven't messed with one to see how customizatable it'll be. On top of that, there isn't any redundancy if you are worried about longevity.

I'm interested in getting a really basic NAS mostly for storing videos on my network and being able to access them from all my computers and possibly from my phone while out of the house. I was looking at the WD My Cloud and it seems like a pretty good deal for 4TB at about $150. I realize it doesn't have the speed or features of the more expensive NAS's, but it seems like it would be enough for me. I also know they have a 'mirrored' version with RAID but I don't even think I need that (I have a separate USB backup drive and also backup to cloud). Is there any reason I shouldn't go with the My Cloud or are there any better alternatives in the same price range?

I use a WD My Cloud 4TB NAS to backup seamlessly via WiFi. It is a customizable wired network drive that you can connect and place next to your router and forget about it. It has a nice Time Machine compatibility and you can configure the allowed space for backups. This is my main backup solution for 2 MacBooks. WD My Cloud - (Amazon)


Also, I have a wired WD My Passport 1TB USB 2.0 that I have used a couple times to backup my back. My Passport - Simiar (Amazon)

How fast do you want access to be? You're probably going to be best served with a USB drive, but you could also use a network attached device.

I am looking for a NAS at the moment as a home media server of some sort and some backups. Probably around 4-8tb while i can upgrade it in the future.

I never had a NAS before and at the moment i would buy this one. Is that okay?

I have a TV that is connected to the network on its own and i hope it can read from a NAS without help while the other TVs would need a Raspberrypi right? Or is there an easyer version?

Price is unknown, if it is worth it to get a 2 bay NAS because of futureproof up to 5 years it would be okay. Otherwise i think 1 drive is enough because i save my backups in 2 other locations too.

Thank you very much and probably a happy new year. :)

I´ve a Acer Revo One with a i3 and i can handle 1080p. It´s also available with two hardrive slots and a i5 so you can stack it up to 4TB in that. But its 2,5 inch harddrive so i added a simple My Cloud 4TB NAS. Turned off all the BS from WD, so its i can Write with about 70Mbit/s.
So, my Setup

Revo One i3 368$

2TB WD Red 89$

With this Setup for 457$ you have 3TB plus you have a Windows PC.
So, for me that was not enough so i bought a
My Cloud 4TB NAS for 168$, so i´ve a bit more Space, and that is more than enough for me.


The Windows was for the most important thing, because i can easily run everything on that i need like JDownloader etc..
Plus, that PC is connected directly to my Router, nothing else. So i can connect via Remote Desktop from MacBook or any other Windows PC and just administrate everything there. That for me was a big plus.

If i3 is not enough for you, there is a i5 as well, and you can insert there 2 harddrives instead of just one. But it cost 545$.

Also, instead of and old PC, that little things just consumes 16W in idle. I have a meter on it to check.

This all the way. I only use portable drives for time machine backups. But for system images, I just go with the NAS solution. I"m sitting on about 2TB of worth of HDD's now, with the option to go up to 8TB....I think. I have a home grown solution. /u/borngamr try this one: WD NAS I've had them in the past. The read/write speeds were ok. If you have an old computer sitting around, I would just grab a few empty TB drives and a Linux server image, and build your own nas. It'll be more fun, and probably cheaper.

No problem, glad you've read it.

• I understand the redundancy part, but you have to understand RAID1. You lose 50% of the storage capacity. So if you absolutely must redundancy, I suggest to buy 2x2/3/4TB HDDs and put those in a RAID1 and further add more drives for less important files that are bigger.
  When you go to RAID5/6 you lose less storage capacity, but rebuilding a RAID5.. takes forever with on-board RAID controllers.
  Even rebuilding a RAID1 takes a pretty long time.
  
  It's obviously up to OP, but I don't see the cost justified by going for on-board RAID when you can get an external HDD or NAS for relatively cheap prices.
  
  
• 5TB External HDD $119.99
  
• 4TB WD My Cloud $169.99
  
  I personally own the WD My Cloud and it's really good for the price and my use case. Absolutely not a fast beast, but certainly adequate for my use. I only store videos, photos and a bit of work files on it.
  
  That is certainly worth it way more compared to adding a second HDD with RAID1. Of course, those two above can both die.. but anything can.
  You can however sync a certain folder or a whole HDD on your PC with the WD My Cloud daily. Thus making a copy of files that are on your PC, then if the NAS dies, you should have most files still on your PC. If your PC HDD dies, you got it all on the NAS.
  
  
• Well.. I am sure that for some people, it looks great to have 4 DIMM slots filled with RAM. But, I don't think your wallet likes how it looks to upgrade from 4x8GB to 3/4x16GB when you want to upgrade to more RAM later. I personally have 2x4GB and only a motherboard with 2 working DIMMs. (2 are dead.. RIP) so I could only upgrade by buying 2x8GB sticks, however.. it's DDR3 and thus I will wait till I upgrade to a platform with DDR4. Else I just throw away money, in the long run.
  
  
• That's interesting, I thought that the R7-1700 would ship with the Wrait Stealth, the R7-1700X with the Wraith Spire & the R7-1800X with the Wraith MAX (RGB).
  
  I actually didn't look at it much at all, but you seem to be right. When I look at my own stores here in Europe at least, the R7-1700X & 1800X ship without a cooler where the R7-1700 comes with the Wraith Spire. Interesting!
  
  Regardless, I still stand on my point about noise. I haven't seen much about the stock cooler aside from some dB numbers that mean absolutely nothing.
  Sooo.. I am just going to assume that they're not very quiet. Which is something I highly prefer and many people do as well. At least, in my experience.
  
  
• Then.. why do you suggest an "expensive" X370 board and say that if you don't want this, get a B350?
  Very confusing!
  
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  Thanks for your feedback!

This drive looks to only has a USB 3.0 on it.
You need a new router or a NAS Drive with an ethernet port on it.

I been looking up Network Attached Storage drives recently and my Archer c7 has a USB port on it and from what I gather, attaching a drive to the router is a clunky and slow alternative to just hooking up a device through ethernet.

> Why not just run Plex server on the NAS?

Because it's just a networked drive appliance, not an actual server.

And then at each TV you just need a ~ $50 Raspberry PI running KODI.

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Edit: downvotes why??

There are plenty of other ways to get wireless Time Machine without shelling out for Apple's router. For instance, this WD MyCloud + the router I recommended is about the same price as the 3TB Time Capsule, but you get an extra TB of storage, and when the drive dies, you can get another without replacing the router as well.

Thank you very much. I had not known about either option. After a few searches, finding this product has caught my attention.
Is this what you were talking about, because it’s not that expensive, and if I could run it with my windows desktop or my macbook, I would absolutely buy this.
Do you know of another product that is superior, or one that you would recommend? And thanks again.This thing

I got BB to price match amazon for a 2 TB @ $119. they usually float around 140 or so everyday price, just watch for a sale. you could probably save some money doing it on your own, but i am speculating. i didn't even research. i saw cheap reliable NAS w/ Gbit port with low power consumption so i bought it.

2TB WD My cloud for $143. 4TB $219

Ok, then ignore me haha. For some reason I assumed you had Plex on a home server rather than your laptop. Any networked hard drive like this one will work fine.

Many versions & configurations available -

https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Home-Personal-Storage-WDBVXC0040HWT-NESN/dp/B076CTK55W

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EVVGAD0/

I have this: Amazon.

Get an external hard drive to plug into the xbox for games then get a NAS for movies and other media. Thats what im going to be doing when they expand the dlna functions.

NAS that I'm getting: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EVVGAD0/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=3G0CIQ9JHSRVK&coliid=I396POMJBIJ0XY&psc=1

External Hard Drive for games:
http://www.amazon.com/Book-USB-Hard-Drive-Backup/dp/B00E3RH61W/ref=pd_tcs_compl_pc_9?ie=UTF8&refRID=0C1K2TN2RGWYK3Y7PQ6C

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