I have 12 Western Digital external drives. 4 are USB and the remainder (including the My Cloud Home 4TB) are networked. Of the 4 USB 2 are connected to the USB 3 ports on my router, and 2 are connected to my machine.
When I purchased the WD My Cloud Home drive (October or November of last year), the very first thing the software installation disc did was to remove all the software for the other 11 drives, without any warning whatsoever (strike 1). It seems you see, that the My Cloud Home software will not work with the other 11 drives, nor vise-versa.
When I purchased the My Cloud Home (at best buy), They had boxes for the original WD My Cloud on the shelf, but when I went to get them they said they had none in stock. I asked what the difference was between the models and was told that the My Cloud Home was just a newer model. They said it should work the same but with some new features.
Two of my internal sata drives are WD as well, but Personally, as someone who has WD Elite (x2), My Book 3TB, My Book 4TB, My Book Live 2TB, My Cloud 4 (x3), My Cloud 6 (x2), and My Cloud 8, and then the My Cloud Home 4TB, if what is offered is limited to the My Cloud Home, I will be looking elsewhere.
As well, the My Cloud Home suddenly disconnects from the system which I later get an email about it having its firmware updated. Since I am not running its software, this is not something that I can seem to change. Also I keep getting emails about the state of the space on the drive.
No dashboard on these new drives that I’ve been able to find.
I would have to say that thus far in my experience it gets a big thumbs down for me.