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Device

Review

WD My Cloud Personal

Network

By Jasmine D’Katz

During our annual picnic, I overheard a couple of
member talking about the cloud and why they don’t
use it. Many reasons being
that they don’t trust their infor-
mation somewhere they are
not sure is completely secure.
While clouds like OneDrive
and DropBox are very con-
venient for sharing files be-
tween computer and tables,
especially if you don’t have a
home network that allows you
to do this. So why not set up
your own home base cloud.

on you home network. Photo and video from
Western Digital offers several your smartphone and tables can also be
home base NAS servers you backed up so you can free up space on your
can set up in your home and devices.
access from anywhere. The I did say all devices connected to your network
WD My Cloud is fast, afforda- and that means your phones and tables. By
ble and easy to setup and for downloading the mobile app for you IOS and
you to have your own personal cloud. The WD My Android mobile, you can easily have access to
Cloud comes in 2TB, 3TB and 4TB costing from all file you have stored on My Cloud via a Wi-Fi
$150 to $250 making it very reasonable for you own network or using your cellular connection.
home cloud.
Although I haven’t set My Cloud up for sharing,
There’s a blue LED light on the front of the drive to this will allow you to share files with a group of
indicate the drive is powered up and it will flash friends or family.
when you are access the data. There is also a USB
3.0 port for connecting additional storage of initiating
direct download from a camera.
Program
I was able to unbox the My Cloud drive and set it up
in less than thirty-minutes. The My Could come with Review
a small power adapter and network cable. The Quick
Setup guide was pretty straight forward, Once the
software is installed, the My Cloud Dashboard was
well organized and I had no problem figuring it out. The Windows 10 Anniversary
Next connect My Could to a network port on your
router and that’s it. Edition has a Lot to Love
By Sandy Berger, Compu-KISS
Once connected the My Could drive will appear in www.compukiss.com
your file explore with three Public share folders. Two sandy (at) compukiss.com
other folder are labeled SmartWare and Time Ma-
chine Backup, and these folders will be available to The Windows 10 Anniversary Edition is
all connected devices on your home network. The
SmartWare will automatically back up all your files filled with new features that you will want to

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