WD My Cloud video Server is a physical cloud storage device when connected to your router gives you access to all your electronic goods like mobile phones, PCs, tablets, and so on through the internet. Simply put, it’s a device that you buy once rather than paying monthly charges to the cloud services, and can be used as you wish.
It serves the purpose of your single-centered personal cloud space. This is NAS(Network Attached Storage) device allowing you to save, organize, have backups, and share files via your internet. The data or files stored in this WD My Cloud Video server can be used and accessed wirelessly anywhere through the internet.
How Do You Setup?
Setting WD My Cloud Server is simple. ‘Just connect this to your home router with an ethernet cable’. Then download and set-up an installation package on each device you want to use. Once installed and configured, you will be able to store photos, videos, movies, documents, and many more.
The server consists of three public sharing folders called
Public
Smartware
Time-machine backup
After connecting, these folders can be accessed onto your PCs, mobiles, and your other devices, using the MyCloud app through the internet.
How Do You Access It On Mobile?
Download the MyCloud mobile app.
Your mobile identifies your MyCloud and make sure you are initially on the same network while you are setting this up.
Done. It’s as simple as that.
How To Access When You Aren’t On Same Local Network or When Abroad?
Your mobile still will be connected to the MyCloud NAS server through the internet, though you aren’t on your home network, which means no extra set-up is required to access your home network.
Where Do Files Get Stored?
As mentioned before, the server consists of three folders. Here you can store your files and data into this. You can also manage and organize the type of files you like to share throughout your devices.
The settings which you would like to change like, username, the password can be done in the Users configuration screen.
Basically, this MyCloud can also work as your remote computer or an application on any of your devices through the MyCloud account across the internet.
Storage and Access Of Files
The exciting thing is, that you can backup your photos, videos, multi-media files, social media files(along with comments and tags included), and your memorabilia. Once you have stored the data, you can access or use it through the MyCloud app or your browser.
A separate storage/ content area can be created for each of your family members. The files or the data stored on the cloud can also be shared with friends and family via sharing apps or emails and messaging.
• So as to be device-friendly, the Mycloud adjusts the video or photo resolution itself depending on the device which you are viewing or accessing your files. Well, this seems to be interesting.
• Guests or friends can have limited access to your data.
• As this is a hard drive connected to your home network, it is said to be safe compared to storing your data on virtual clouds.
• Safepoints: These are like replicas of your drive/ folders of your files, which can be stored on other devices/ drives attached to your MyCloud home network. The only shortcoming of these safepoints is, that the redundancy of your data can not be maintained when your original and backup recovery devices are at the same location during a disaster.
Points To Be Noted:
1. You need to keep your internet speed high.
2. This MyCloud can be used when you have all smart devices.
3. Downloads automatically go to the MyCloud drive.
Cost and Pricing:
The memory size of WD MyCloud ranges from 2Terabytes to 8Terabytes.
$150 for 2TB
$180 for 3TB,
$250 for 4TB,
$265-$300 for 6 TB
$354 for 8 TB
A Few Drawbacks of MyCloud Server:
• The mobile app of MyCloud first buffers the content which needs to be displayed, while accessing them.
This leads to a slightly more responsive time of displaying the content.
• No data redundancy can be maintained when the original and backup devices are in the same location.
• Internet speed must be high.
So, we can say that this WD MyCloud is a better option for users ensuring the safety of their data, and maintaining single-centered storage.
• Should the MyCloud be connected to a router?
Yes, MyCloud has to be connected to your home router with a network cable as MyCloud works over the network connection.
• Can MyCloud be used as a storage device?
Of course, it can be used as a storage device through the internet. It can store and retrieve data whenever needed.
