Why I now hate My Clouds

[mike27oct]

OK, I wish you well with your QNAP, although I want you to see this story of a few weeks ago:

My Cloud vs NAS

I have had bad experiences with 2 QNAP NAS’ (QNAP now out for hardware replacement). I am not tech-savvy and used it mostly for storing uncompressed music/photo/video media, (for streaming to my home theater) and documents, and for having external access to them. Currently use WD My Books for back-up. Trying to dumb everything down - Am considering purchasing 2 My Cloud duo units - 1 as an external hard drive to only store documents and connect direct to my PC (wireless to home router); the o…