The irony of this is that once you’ve activated the Plex DLNA feature on the My Cloud Home you can then install any free DLNA client app on your phone or tablet and get this functionality working easily. WD is certainly offering plenty of space. So if the drive inside fails there is no easy way to swap it out. Ultimately this laptop has achieved everything I would hope for in a laptop for work, while fitting that into a form factor and weight that is remarkable. Credit: Western Digital This is similar to VPN access though there's no VPN connection. Of these, the most critical for many users will be the Plex functionality that allows any local DLNA client devices to find your files. WD has also implemented a Social and Cloud import system linking Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Box, Facebook or Google Photos accounts and synchronises them with the My Cloud Home each in a separate folder. The device's only shortcoming is its mobile app, which could use some improvement, and I have no doubt that will happen via updates. Frontwise, there’s a single LED light built into the front of the unit which indicates whether or not it's connected the internet. He started writing in 1986 and had contributed to MicroMart, PC Format, 3D World among others. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. They support traditional NAS features via a browser-based dashboard and DLNA support, while apps let you access your drive remotely via PCs, smartphones and tablets just like popular cloud services. The MyCloud does also have its own iTunes Server, however, so you can easily browse and play back on iTunes for Mac and PC (though, and we've never understood this, not on iOS devices without a third party app). It ditches more advanced features to concentrate on core functionality like support for DLNA and iTunes servers, UPnP, and FTP (though the latter is disabled by default) plus multi-user support to set folder access and permissions. The power to create restore points helps the My Cloud overcome the data safety shortcomings of a single-volume NAS server. In the mobile app I was able to specify how often I wanted to sync with the My Cloud device. This doesn't affect our editorial independence. For a while there, things weren’t looking so rosy for the now-ubiquitous cloud. The display of third-party trademarks and trade names on this site does not necessarily indicate any affiliation or the endorsement of PCMag. People are rightly nervous about cloud storage. Top-of-class performance The most impressive thing about the WD My Cloud is its performance.

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