Hi there!
I think WD has created an amazing piece of „minimal - down to it“ hardware with its „My Cloud“.
this little box is:
very fast for what its designed, economic when it comes to
power consumption, small in size - huge in TB, discreet looking and hey, I can even easily access it from all over the world!
BUT:
OK, the firmware (software?) has steadily improved since summer 14, but by then it was pretty much the bottom.
sorry to say.
What i don’t understand is why it is still not possible to fix once and for all the (obvious if you look at the community?) problems with some usb (-driver chipsets?) external drives.
My external HDD-enclosure works on every other computer, but not on the MyC: If connected to MyC I can see it for few minutes on the UI, it got correct name and model, then it disappears to nirvana… (when I’m „lucky“ I’m able to make a few minutes of Safepoint backup, which doesn’t help at all, of course)
MyC is then still fully responsiv over ethernet. USB, however, is dead until I restart MyC, then back to “normal” again with other devices, which I tried on it.
Firmware Version: v04.01.03-421
USB-Chipset of my enclosure: Genesys Logic GL3310 (usb3) (this chipset seemd to be on the market since 2010, so it’s not entierly new…)
HDD is a WD Green 3TB in HFS+J
To be honest: Might it be an idea to check a few more USB-chipset-hdd-combinations before they call the second plug on the back of MyC a USB-connection?
But still, I’m convinced that the MyC could (is gona?) be a pretty much perfect device!
greetz
adrian
