I thought about this when I had a WD Live but I’m now an owner of a real 4TB WD Cloud instead and I only paid about a $100 total including taxes for the upgrade after I sold my old WD Live 2TB for $125
Two main thoughts that I had when I considered the upgrade…
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the price of a WD 4TB Red Hard drive is about $220 here in Canada
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the price of a WD 4TB Cloud complete with enclosure is $229 on sale. I actually got mine for $190 after NCIX dropped their 4TB Cloud to $195 of which I got an additional 20% off for the difference.
Problems that may result in upgrading WD Live
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WD Live hardware or bios may not support 4TB
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**bleep** when installing the OS.
Other thoughts
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speed of WD Live is much slower something in the neighborhood of 33MB/s reads where as the WD Cloud is getting 45MB/s writes and 75MB/s reads.
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support of an external USB 3.0. The reads and writes of the USB 3.0 through the network is exceptional at 40MB/s writes and 70MB/s reads.
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the amount of time and care needed to swap the drives and you may **bleep** the 4TB drives by short circuiting it.
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no warranty
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old live OS versus new WD Cloud OS
Although it may be tempting, the end cost is that you do get your enclosure for free if you buy the WD 4TB Cloud versus a bare bone WD Red 4TB.
Just saying…
