Is it possible to force a My Cloud Home into using OS3 with the eventual goal to upgrade to OS5?
Is this a software or hardware limitation
My Cloud Home uses neither OS3 nor OS5.
The product for these OS’s is My Cloud.
Please read the following for more information:
Support for your My Cloud and WD Cloud device is changing
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I already know this information, I was asking if I could force my cloud home to run os3.
I bought WD Black External drives thinking I could use the USB port on my cloud HOME to expand it. I’m finding this is not possible without OS3 am I right?
My Cloud Home does not and cannot run OS3 nor OS5. These OS’s only run on the My Cloud product line. My Cloud Home does not support them.
Additionally, My Cloud Home USB supports only the import/export of data to and from the device.
Please see the following article for more information:
My Cloud Home: Export, Copy or Backup Content with USB
See, I’m fully aware of what a WD employee would answer, I can read the books too. You do however make a great point, finding any sort of research on this is next to impossible due to the naming system.
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It really can’t be that hard to do a search if you could spend a few minutes on learning how. The first thread will tell you more than you’d want to know about running an alternative OS on the MCH.
http://community.wd.com/search?expanded=true&q=debian%20%23home-cloud-storage
Just going to assume you meant that respectfully, as I meant I exhausted Google search. I’m here specificity and expert knowledge.
Thank you for the link.
Yeah- - - it’s hard to get specific searches to yield specific information. Been there. Done that.
IF I RECALL - - - - you will never get WD to say OS3 can run on MCH boxes. . .because the OS3 (and OS5) is tested on specfic hardware combinations. . . and the MCH boxes have different hardware.
IF I RECALL. … . the MyHome line runs android based software; whereas the MyCloud OS3/OS5 software is linux based software.
So I am sure you can find a way to make it work. . .but it means basically loading untested firmware onto the system. At that point. . . you may as well try Synology DSM or TrueNas software as opposed to OS3.
Thanks, I didn’t know websites had search functions. I must have spent hours doing something else.
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Hahahahaha I love you. You win the internet today.
This is the kind of answer I was looking for. Informative and not telling me to go search things I’ve already searched.
I appreciate you.
Yeah. . . we have some interesting folk on this forum.
But seriously. . . . the MCH is a poor excuse for a NAS.
Basically - - -you will have to flash new firmware to get it to do what you want.
You have significant odds of bricking the unit when you do this. I mean. . .it’s like trying to get a MAC to run Win11.
Honestly - - - since I have spending coin. . . . at this point I would look at a new NAS (Different vendor).
If you have some coin. . . and patience. . . . I would start with either an old PC or a Rasberry Pi and run a freeware NAS software on a known linux distro.
OS3 and OS5 are running (If I recall) older Linux distributions that have been severely cut down and modified for WD purposes. I think even the OS5 distro is pushing 3-4 years old. . and is far from current.
((Gosh - - -you really can’t use USB drives to expand MyCloudHome Capacity?? - - - > That software is really limited))
I got the MCH because my local store was having a flash sale and the 4tb version was about $75.
What I DO have are a couple of WD Black 5tb’s and an Nvidia Shield Pro 4K. Can I make magic with that?
