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Digital here in the Western Digital Booth they're showing off the mycloud

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now to be clear guys this is an external hard drive it's a NZ okay so there's a 3

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and 1 half inch drive inside it's available in two three or four terab

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configurations on the back you can see you got your standard USB 3 gab Lan and

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Power in you also got some ventilation holes so you might be going okay well

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lus why are they calling this the my cloud and the answer is that it's all

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about the software and while personal cloud has been something that's existed

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for quite some time that is to say using your own personal storage for all of

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your off-site backup or or your your cloud backup so you can carry your files

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around with you even when you're on your phone this has existed but what WD is

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trying to do here is make it much simpler and much more accessible for

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regular people so it's got the usual PC

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or Mac that's that is to say it's compatible with Time Machine backups

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it's got the usual DLNA server so it does all that stuff that a wd Nas

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normally does but where the key differentiator comes in is in the mobile

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software so it's super easy to set up you connect to the mycloud and then you

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can do all the kinds of things you would expect to be able to do with a service

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such as Dropbox or Google Drive that is to say you can pull down files at any

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time and then view them on your phone or on your tablet or other device even

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another computer you can upload or backup files from your device to your

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mycloud for access at a later date and

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you can even actually synchronize my cloud so that is your personal cloud

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with other cloud services such as a sky drive or Google Drive now it's available

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in that single Drive configuration but it's also available with the mycloud EX4

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this is like I don't know it's somewhere between a personal device and like a

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like a small office home office device it accepts up to four drives it supports

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rate 015 and 10 and it's got redundancy

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so you can see it has two power inputs 2 gbit land so it's got fail over there it

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also has two usb3 ports for additional expansion instead of just one and it

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comes at least the one we're looking at here with no drives installed so you can

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actually mix and match and pick your own storage configuration up to 16 tabt of

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raw storage for your own personal cloud which you can then configure whatever

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way you want so guys this has been the my cloud stay tuned because we are

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getting our hands on a unit we are definitely going to be doing a review you so that's going to be coming soon

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stay tuned for that guys thank you for checking out this video from the Western

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