I have a 8TB MyCloud Home that works great for my needs, but I also inherited a MyBook Live and two MyCloud drives, all 3TB, all work. What could I use these for that I’m not using the MyCloud Home drive for? From what I’ve read, these legacy drives will not work with PLEX etc. like the MyCloud Home drive I’m using does. I’m ready to crack them open, format them and use the drives as backup storage for music, video and pictures by installing them in external HD cases attached to my MacPro desktop. Thoughts?
Hello Greyrock,
Opening the Non-User Servicable WD Devices like My Cloud Home is not recommended as it will void the warranty of the device and the hard drive.
To know more, you can refer to the link given below.
NON-Issue… out of warranty…
They are probably out of warranty in any case (particularly the My Book Live), but that does not mean they are useless. You csn just use them as additional network storages. But their hard drives work just fine when inserted in a hard drive enclosure or in a desktop (I know this by practice). You can even replace the drives if they have bombed out, there is info in other forums on how to go about doing that. Obviously, WD frowns upon it and you would not wanna do it on anything that is still under warranty, but I do not see the reason why you would not try thst out if the disk is dead/corrupted and the device out of warranty anyway.
