Hypothetical here: Say my Mac crashes or something. I take it to my local Mac shop for repair. I know my place usually offers to also restore to a Time Machine backup so I dont have to mess with it when I get home. But my TM backups go to my My Cloud which requires the ethernet connection, etc etc. Is there no way to just plug the My Cloud into the Mac via USB like a normal external HD?
@sarahfelldown No! Have you read the User Manual for your generation of My Cloud? See Chapter 12 for more on connecting to the USB.
No. The My Cloud USB port doesn’t work like a external USB hard drive. The port is for connecting external USB hard drives/flash drives to the My Cloud for either expanding storage or for backing up My Cloud data to the attached USB hard drive.
One can connect the Ethernet port on the My Cloud directly to a computer however.
Or one can remove the internal My Cloud hard drive, attach it to a SATA to USB cable/enclosure/docking station (or to a desktop SATA cable.eSATA port), then use either Linux or a third party windows driver to read the data from the My Cloud hard drive. The My Cloud hard drive is generally formatted for Linux. Note removing the hard drive from the My Cloud will void the My Cloud warranty.
