Old My book live uprgade to New My Cloud advice

Legacy Products My Cloud OS 3
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I have a my book live several years old, the black model 2TB.
But it nothing but trouble now. A lot of the drive in inaccessible and I keep having to restart it, at this moment is not recognise do the network, the leds at the back show its all connected, the front led is mostly off with an occasional yellow blink.

I am looking to change it to the new white coloured My Cloud.

I use it mainly to store & serve media to my Panasonic TV, (DLNA Smart TV) which I think it uses the included twonky media server. I upload from my PC to the MBL and then view on the tv.

WIll the new My Cloud do everything that I want, and everything that the old my book live did ie play my stuff on the Panasonic tv?

Thanks.

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I suggest you read up on the available devices and decide for yourself.

http://learn.mycloud.com/

https://support.wdc.com/product.aspx?ID=904&lang=en

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I’ve looked myself of course, just after some first hand experience.

Don’t see any mention of twonky in the user manual, if that’s what I need?

It does seem to talk a lot about using the web interface, cant you just map a drive on the pc like with the My Book LIve?

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If the tv supports samba, yes.

Most smart tvs/dvrs want to use a dlna server though, which is what twonky is. Personally I prefer minidlna myself, but your mileage may vary.

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Thanks, I know it supports dlna, samba I have never heard of.

The tv is a few years old now, checked the manual and it talks about dlna server, twonky media server but no mention of samba

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samba is the daemon that provides windows file shares, using the SMB protocol. The manual for the TV would say something like “windows file share” if it supported it.

very very few such devices support it though. Pretty much all support dlna.

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Thanks. Yes looks like it does not.

I think My Cloud Home has plex server which has dlna, so that should work right?

https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=18937#topic1

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Pretty much.

The mycloud personal clouds also do DLNA using twonky.

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That’s the one that looks like the one I have (black my book live) but in white, isn’t that one finished now?

I live in Thailand and only see the my cloud home now (the white/grey one)

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It is discontinued, yes-- but that does not make the hardware stop working. Also, you can probably score some on liquidation if you look around.

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Thanks for your help, Will take a look.