Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...
Network-attached storage (NAS) can be an extremely useful addition to today's multi-device household. A centralised data store makes a whole lot of sense, as do regular backups from our desktops, ...
Between our smartphones, cameras and computers, we’re downloading and creating more content than ever. Which makes storing, managing and accessing that content a real challenge, especially if you have ...
Nowadays people have been skeptic about using the cloud ever since the vulnerabilities to such services have been exposed. Your data can be hacked, or your accounts might be deleted, there are a lot ...
Today, Western Digital announced the My Cloud Home and My Cloud Home Duo personal cloud storage solutions. Both are designed to provide an easy way to back up all your files from all your devices in ...
I love the cloud. I depend on it. The cloud allows me to access my data from any device at any time; from anywhere I have broadband access. And I can share some or all of that information with other ...
File sharing with your own hardware doesn’t get any easier or cheaper than with the My Cloud Mirror. On the other hand, configuration for advanced capabilities is geeky, and the app environment isn’t ...
It doesn’t take much to set up and configure My Cloud. After downloading the desktop software (WD My Cloud Dashboard) and installing it on a PC, we plugged My Cloud into an outlet and connected it to ...
The big picture: Western Digital announced last week that it's dropping support for older versions of My Cloud OS, the software used for managing My Cloud drives. As a result, drive owners still ...
WD’s My Cloud Mirror doesn’t deliver barn-burning performance, but it’s very easy to set up and use and it delivers most everything you could want in a Consumer NAS box. I liked Western Digital’s My ...
Performance, at first glance, doesn't appear to be a strong point. We would expect most NAS devices to saturate the Gigabit Ethernet interface, but My Cloud Home Duo managed modest sequential read and ...
The WD My Cloud Home is an external hard drive which can be used as a personal cloud server for all your files. It plugs directly into your home Wi-Fi system, and so long as it’s switched on and ...