[GUIDE] Upgrade HDD of WD My Cloud 1st gen

[Bennor]

Can it work? Likely yes. But there may be/are better options. Note that if a drive isn’t designed for NAS use (like the WD Red line of NAS drives or Seagate Ironwolf line of NAS drives) one may end up having the hard disk drive fail faster in a NAS/My Cloud than it would under normal desktop usage.

And another issue is the SMR vs CMR. Generally SMR drives are not recommended for use in a NAS for a number of reasons. Seagate indicates (https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/cmr-smr-list/) their Barracuda drives 2GB-8GB are SMR drives. CMR is best when it comes to NAS drives.

Hard disk drives up to 12TB or more should work in a single bay/single drive My Cloud enclosure. Some past experimentation from a few years ago with WD hard disk drives:

8TB wd red drives

Success! The WD EasyStore 8TB drive I purchased from Best Buy was made in Thailand. And it is the 256mb cache WD Red version. My Cloud enclosure was a first gen version. I used Fox_Exe’s unbricking directions for unbricking/replacing HDD for first gen’s. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_6OlQ_H0PxVbzZac0plbkZKeGM/view The those directions have a broken link to the archive file one needs to download. I used the original_v04.01.02-417.tar.gz file: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_…

[GUIDE] Upgrade a working My Cloud to a bigger HDD (easy steps)

Finally got CloneZilla to work at cloning to a new larger drive. In my case I wound up having to put the existing My Cloud drive and the new one in USB to SATA enclosures then perform the clone. For some reason if I used my PC’s SATA ports CloneZilla would throw errors. [Screenshot_2019-11-08] Yeah that’s right. That is not a typo. 22 TB’s of free space. The My Cloud has an internal 12 TB drive and a second 12 TB drive attached via USB. These two drives will be going into a better …

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