Bennor
January 5, 2018, 12:46pm
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If one uses the forum search feature, magnifying glass icon upper right, they’ll find several past discussions that are similar.
I am a my cloud (original) user, 4 tb. I love it. I wanted to add a second one and went to a local store where I could only purchase the my cloud home in an 8 tb. They no longer carried the older version over 6 tb. I was explained that it’s simply the newer version of the original my cloud.
Fast forward, I have set up the new device and discovered major differences that I am not excited by.
I am hoping other users who have both can advise me before I take the my cloud home back and purchas…
WD created a Support article that covers the hardware differences between the My Cloud and My Cloud Home:
https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=18909
The My Cloud Home IS NOT https://community.wd.com/c/home-cloud-storage ) before purchasing one to fully understand it’s features and more importantly
There is some additional comments on the My Cloud Home in this discussion:
Having read some early reviews of the My Cloud Home - I was excited to upgrade from my WD My Cloud. My issues with the WD My Cloud were as follows:
Write speeds were often slow especially on smaller files and would fail sometimes
Timemachine backups would take literally days - so long that I would never really complete a full backup
Software for WD My Cloud was really lacking
So, when my WD My Cloud Home arrived I was excited to try it out, first impressions - the setup was ridiculously easy …
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