Can I use my WD My Cloud like a USB Thumbdrive?

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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Hi WD Community,

Can I use the usb port on my WD My Cloud 3TB like a usb thumbdrive where by I connect it to a desktop and manually transfer files?  Will the PC driver recognize the device as a standard storage unit in that case? 

Thanks,

Timon

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Timon wrote:

Hi WD Community,

 

Can I use the usb port on my WD My Cloud 3TB like a usb thumbdrive where by I connect it to a desktop and manually transfer files?  Will the PC driver recognize the device as a standard storage unit in that case? 

 

Thanks,

Timon

No.  The USB port on the Cloud is a host port, not a slave port.

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Reply to Timon,

 

I suggest you look at the  User Manual , and look at Connecting a USB hard drive.

 

Posted by,

cat0w

 

 

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You could copy your data to a USB disk and then plug this USB disk to the My Cloud, then you could use the WD My Cloud software to copy the data from the USB disk to the My Cloud. If you use your computer to do that copy, the data is going to round trip between the NAS and the computer (that will be slow). With the onboard software, you will copy internally from the USB disk to the the Cloud and that could be faster than copying from your computer to the Cloud directly. Your mileage will vary. The NAS is capable of direct to NAS speeds much high than USB 3.0, but it is not obvious you will achieve these speeds in your environment, depending on connections, switch, computer set up etc.

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I see…thanks!  That was helpful. :slight_smile:

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Will do, thanks!