My Cloud Home after June?

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@MyHomer

hinking of buying a QNAP or Synology, and then ripping out the hard drive from the my cloud home.

@zaja

but can I rip out the internal drive and use it as a drive with an enclosure?

Talks of ripping out some drive seem to give satisfaction to a lot of MCH owners. But a little bit of forethought and light research on this MCH subforum with the search function will give you most of the answers. All you have to do is to download the debug_logs.tar from your MCH and read the smartctl log (hard disk log) and system log. It will tell you all the model and serial number and state of the hard drive. Then read about what happens when one tries to use a SMR drive in a NAS. The situation is worsened by the age of the SMR drive since the general lifetime of a HDD in constant service is about 2.5 years…

My Cloud Home and SanDisk ibi - Important Update About Access To Your Files

That is something you would not want to do. Synology will generally not approve low end SMR drives such as the WD40EFAX series in the MCH as HDDs that are compatible with their NAS - read their forum and search this subforum as well. Synology considered them as light duty and not what one would use for NAS.

There is a very good reason why home users buy the MCH and that is because it is cheap storage. And the reason it is cheap is because of the lack of firmware functionality and the unreliability of the cheaper SMR hard drives in a NAS type operating system.