Personal cloud systems - Seagate / WD?

[Sparkysea]

Hi All

Further to my post query on external hard drives has anyone experience of the Seagate or WD personal cloud systems please? Need to store personal and medical data on the system.

Any probs with them?

Only downside seems to me is that they aren't fireproof...so thinking of using external hard drive in fireproof safe as well??

Sparky

[kingston12]

Sparkysea said:

Hi All

Further to my post query on external hard drives has anyone experience of the Seagate or WD personal cloud systems please? Need to store personal and medical data on the system.

Any probs with them?

Only downside seems to me is that they aren't fireproof...so thinking of using external hard drive in fireproof safe as well??

Sparky

I have just bought a WD Mycloud, and it seems great for the price. The 8TB one is actually cheaper than buying the WD Red drive inside it on it's own.

I was going to go for a more expensive Synology or QNAP enclosure, but this does everything I need for much less money. 100mb+ transfer speed seems as fast as any.

The only downsides so far:

1. It doesn't seem to stay asleep as long as it should when not being used. This leads to a bit of clicking and whirring, which is annoying when it is not doing anything of use..

2. There is a security issue that was recently highlighted. It doesn't matter to me as I only access it from inside my own network, but might be an issue otherwise:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/08/wd_my_clo...

Edited by kingston12 on Thursday 23 March 15:37

[weeboot]

I've been running a WD Mycloud Live for a couple of years now.
2Tb and has been faultless, I'm thinking about replacing it, but only because I want more storage.

[kingston12]

weeboot said:

I've been running a WD Mycloud Live for a couple of years now.
2Tb and has been faultless, I'm thinking about replacing it, but only because I want more storage.

Can't you just connect a USB drive to the back for the current one to increase storage?

[Jinx]

[cough] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/08/wd_my_clo...[cough]

Just a heads up if you missed it.

Ahh sorry repost from above

[anonymous-user]

ive got a wd mycloud and when it works its great... when it works

when it doesnt its a pain in the arse, and you cant fix it remotely

you'll be fine for weeks or months and then it will suddenly decide its not going to play, and you then spend weeks trying to fix it

I still have it but I've backed everything up to amazon so its available everywhere

[cornet]

Sparkysea said:

Only downside seems to me is that they aren't fireproof...so thinking of using external hard drive in fireproof safe as well??

Make sure you check that the fireproof safe is rated for "Data" rather than just paper or "Digital Media".

http://www.safelincs.co.uk/a-guide-to-types-and-ra...

[weeboot]

kingston12 said:

weeboot said:

I've been running a WD Mycloud Live for a couple of years now.
2Tb and has been faultless, I'm thinking about replacing it, but only because I want more storage.

Can't you just connect a USB drive to the back for the current one to increase storage?

Probably, but I'd rather use a "proper" solution...

[cpjitservices]

instead of buying an external hard drive you could buy 1tb of space online for the same price.

Its all up there ^^^^ if your pc goes down you wont lose any data, if your house burns down, you wont lose any data, you can view / use the data on any device connected to the internet. Its probably replicated onto many many servers too.