My Cloud Mirror External Drive vs Personnal Cloud

[Kenny_George]

I’m Looking to buy the My Cloud Mirror, but confused on what to buy. i’m looking on best buy website and it shows two different products for a My Cloud Mirror 4TB.

It shows a My Cloud- Mirror 4TB External Hard Drive (NAS) White WDBZVM0040JWT-NESN at $239.99

and a My Cloud Mirror 4TB Personal Cloud Storage - White WDBWVZ0040JWT-NESN $309.99.

obviously i wanting to pay the lesser price, but i also want what i’ve been researching which is the My Cloud Mirror that is discusse on the WD website. so can someone tell me whats the difference between the two?

[JohnSypin]

One is the first Gen and the one that cost more is the second Gen. They are almost the same except one is single core cpu vs dual core I think.

[DarrenHill]

The Gen2 has a better CPU and more memory.

If you’re just using it as a straight file storage device then either should work, but if you want to use apps on it like Plex or Transmission then I’d go for the Gen2.

[JohnSypin]

Did I read wrong I thought I seen they both have 512 MB ram? Only difference shown is the cpu.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9572/western-digital-updates-my-cloud-mirror-nas-releases-my-cloud-os-3

[DarrenHill]

I think I read somewhere that the Gen 2 has faster RAM, but you’re right that it’s 512MB in both devices. I just double-checked on my Gen 1 and it too has 512MB.