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Digital here in the Western Digital Booth they're showing off the mycloud
now to be clear guys this is an external hard drive it's a NZ okay so there's a 3
and 1 half inch drive inside it's available in two three or four terab
configurations on the back you can see you got your standard USB 3 gab Lan and
Power in you also got some ventilation holes so you might be going okay well
lus why are they calling this the my cloud and the answer is that it's all
about the software and while personal cloud has been something that's existed
for quite some time that is to say using your own personal storage for all of
your off-site backup or or your your cloud backup so you can carry your files
around with you even when you're on your phone this has existed but what WD is
trying to do here is make it much simpler and much more accessible for
regular people so it's got the usual PC
or Mac that's that is to say it's compatible with Time Machine backups
it's got the usual DLNA server so it does all that stuff that a wd Nas
normally does but where the key differentiator comes in is in the mobile
software so it's super easy to set up you connect to the mycloud and then you
can do all the kinds of things you would expect to be able to do with a service
such as Dropbox or Google Drive that is to say you can pull down files at any
time and then view them on your phone or on your tablet or other device even
another computer you can upload or backup files from your device to your
mycloud for access at a later date and
you can even actually synchronize my cloud so that is your personal cloud
with other cloud services such as a sky drive or Google Drive now it's available
in that single Drive configuration but it's also available with the mycloud EX4
this is like I don't know it's somewhere between a personal device and like a
like a small office home office device it accepts up to four drives it supports
rate 015 and 10 and it's got redundancy
so you can see it has two power inputs 2 gbit land so it's got fail over there it
also has two usb3 ports for additional expansion instead of just one and it
comes at least the one we're looking at here with no drives installed so you can
actually mix and match and pick your own storage configuration up to 16 tabt of
raw storage for your own personal cloud which you can then configure whatever
way you want so guys this has been the my cloud stay tuned because we are
getting our hands on a unit we are definitely going to be doing a review you so that's going to be coming soon
stay tuned for that guys thank you for checking out this video from the Western
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