My Cloud For graphic designers

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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Hello,

I have 2 questions hoping that someone could help before buying the product.

first questions:
I’m graphic designer,
I use Adobe software on daily bases such as photoshop, animate, indesign etc.
Will WD My cloud have enough speed performance to handle big files, can i work online on the device itself (like dropbox)?

second question:
What are the difference between the My Cloud and the My Book LIVE ?!

Regards,
Joe

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Hi @Joe_Habib

thank you for posting your question. Adobe software has some requirements on performance, correct.
Therefore my recommended devices are

My Cloud Expert Serie, made for creative professionals
EX2 Ultra, a 2-Bay network storage with up to 16 TB capacity ( 8 TB net capcity in RIAD 1 Mirror mode)
EX4100, a 4-Bay network storage with up to 32 TB capacity (24 TB net capacity in RAID 5)

or, a bit slower in performance but with expandable RAM, if you want to use Wordpress or Joomla direct on the device: DL2100, 2-Bay or DL4100, 4-Bay. These both are the Business models.

From my personal point of view, I would choose EX4100 for your centralized storage.

BTW: My Book Life is end-of-life since a long time, it was a device prior to the My Cloud models

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It may be helpful if you could clarify your way of working, or the way you hope to work.

  • do you do most of your interactive design work local to your home network?
  • do you only need to passively fetch your work when away from home?
  • or do you need to do interactive design work when remote from home (and thus remote from your MyCloud)?

If you need to do a lot of interactive design work when remote from your home network, you need to bear in mind the uplink rate from your home network to the internet, and the downlink rate from internet to your place of work. Unless you have a very high speed fibre connections (of the order of gigabit speeds), then the up and downlink rates will be your bottleneck.

You also need to be aware that you cannot ‘map’ your remote drive into your computer’s file system and use it transparently (like a locally-connected disk); you would need to download all materials to your computer, do your design work local to your computer, and then upload the result back to the MyCloud.

If you use a NAS on your local network, you need to be aware that the transfer rate between NAS and PC will depend on your local ethernet infrastructure; you will need gigabit ethernet, including router & PC. The MyCloud supports Gigabit ethernet, but you are likely to get only about 80MByte/s sustained transfer rate (on a good day). You will not achieve the transfer rates that you would expect using an internal SATA 2/3 drive in your computer. And none of the interfaces achieve their ‘headline transfer rates’ in the real world.

http://www.tested.com/tech/pcs/457172-why-storage-drive-speeds-dont-hit-their-theoretical-limits/

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Thank you for your reply,
I do not need a lot of capacity,
I need the performance.

I looked over the EX4100 / EX2 it is a bit higher than my budget but it looks more professional than the personal my cloud

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Hey,

you were helpful.
I usually work on my dropbox folder at office/laptop and when i save the file it automatically uploads to the cloud (the internet here pretty fast) then when i go home or to a customer and open my PC/MAC I can continue working or i can show the files to the customer, even if we change things - save and its already on the cloud ready for work again.

now instead of dropbox i’d like to have my personal NAS/Cloud … the question is could i work on it the same as on the dropbox folder.

PS: sorry for my bad English :wink:

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My understanding is the you can ‘map’ your Dropbox folder into the computer’s file system, and treat it like a locally-attached disk drive. As I said above, you cannot do this with the MyCloud (that facility was removed with the OS3 ‘upgrade’). So your method of working would become more cumbersome, having to download files to your computer, work on them on the computer, save them on the computer, and then load them back up to the MyCloud. This isn’t unworkable, but it isn’t as convenient as Dropbox. Only you can decide if it is okay for you.

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