1
00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:07,680
Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for

2
00:00:05,319 --> 00:00:11,679
great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western

3
00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:16,480
Digital here in the Western Digital Booth they're showing off the mycloud

4
00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:20,119
now to be clear guys this is an external hard drive it's a NZ okay so there's a 3

5
00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:24,039
and 1 half inch drive inside it's available in two three or four terab

6
00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:28,439
configurations on the back you can see you got your standard USB 3 gab Lan and

7
00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:31,599
Power in you also got some ventilation holes so you might be going okay well

8
00:00:30,160 --> 00:00:36,120
lus why are they calling this the my cloud and the answer is that it's all

9
00:00:33,719 --> 00:00:40,079
about the software and while personal cloud has been something that's existed

10
00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:45,520
for quite some time that is to say using your own personal storage for all of

11
00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:48,680
your off-site backup or or your your cloud backup so you can carry your files

12
00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:53,039
around with you even when you're on your phone this has existed but what WD is

13
00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:58,280
trying to do here is make it much simpler and much more accessible for

14
00:00:55,280 --> 00:01:00,039
regular people so it's got the usual PC

15
00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:04,320
or Mac that's that is to say it's compatible with Time Machine backups

16
00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:07,720
it's got the usual DLNA server so it does all that stuff that a wd Nas

17
00:01:05,960 --> 00:01:13,320
normally does but where the key differentiator comes in is in the mobile

18
00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:16,439
software so it's super easy to set up you connect to the mycloud and then you

19
00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:20,439
can do all the kinds of things you would expect to be able to do with a service

20
00:01:18,439 --> 00:01:24,560
such as Dropbox or Google Drive that is to say you can pull down files at any

21
00:01:22,759 --> 00:01:28,079
time and then view them on your phone or on your tablet or other device even

22
00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:33,640
another computer you can upload or backup files from your device to your

23
00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:36,119
mycloud for access at a later date and

24
00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:41,079
you can even actually synchronize my cloud so that is your personal cloud

25
00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:45,040
with other cloud services such as a sky drive or Google Drive now it's available

26
00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:50,680
in that single Drive configuration but it's also available with the mycloud EX4

27
00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:55,280
this is like I don't know it's somewhere between a personal device and like a

28
00:01:53,240 --> 00:02:02,039
like a small office home office device it accepts up to four drives it supports

29
00:01:57,479 --> 00:02:03,960
rate 015 and 10 and it's got redundancy

30
00:02:02,039 --> 00:02:08,119
so you can see it has two power inputs 2 gbit land so it's got fail over there it

31
00:02:06,039 --> 00:02:11,560
also has two usb3 ports for additional expansion instead of just one and it

32
00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:15,440
comes at least the one we're looking at here with no drives installed so you can

33
00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:20,560
actually mix and match and pick your own storage configuration up to 16 tabt of

34
00:02:18,319 --> 00:02:25,160
raw storage for your own personal cloud which you can then configure whatever

35
00:02:22,519 --> 00:02:28,680
way you want so guys this has been the my cloud stay tuned because we are

36
00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:34,599
getting our hands on a unit we are definitely going to be doing a review you so that's going to be coming soon

37
00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:38,879
stay tuned for that guys thank you for checking out this video from the Western

38
00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:43,280
Digital Booth here at CES 2014 our trip to the show is powered by nc.com your

39
00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:47,840
source for great technology selection and Service as well as Western Digital

40
00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:53,280
and cors our memory without those guys we would not be able to be here bringing

41
00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,280
you this content from the show