Considering buying MyCloud - some questions

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Hi - I am considering buying My Cloud. Few questions. Hope this is the right forum to ask them:

  • Does WD MyCloud have Hardware Encryption? Or what kind of access protection does it offer in case the drive is physically stolen?

  • If it doesn’t have Hardware Encryption, can I plug a WDMyPassport (which does have encryption), to MyCloud’s USB port, and access those files remotely as if they were in the MyCloud drive? In that case, how do I enter the MyPassport password? And how do I “safely eject” the My Passport drive? Through the PC?

  • Does the MyCloud drive get “mounted” to my PC (i.e. with a drive letter, to access the files DIRECTLY like any other internal drive) …or is it like Skydrive, where the files get COPIED/SYNCHED before they can be accessed?

  • Does the iTunes server functionality work remotely (i.e. can I access songs stored there from outside my home LAN)

  • Can I back-up directly from MyCloud to a 3rd-party cloud, without going through a PC? With what software?

Thanks

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abc-1234 wrote:

Hi - I am considering buying My Cloud. Few questions. Hope this is the right forum to ask them:

 

1) - Does WD MyCloud have Hardware Encryption? Or what kind of access protection does it offer in case the drive is physically stolen?

 

2) - If it doesn’t have Hardware Encryption, can I plug a WDMyPassport (which does have encryption), to MyCloud’s USB port, and access those files remotely as if they were in the MyCloud drive? In that case, how do I enter the MyPassport password? And how do I “safely eject” the My Passport drive? Through the PC?

 

3) - Does the MyCloud drive get “mounted” to my PC (i.e. with a drive letter, to access the files DIRECTLY like any other internal drive) …or is it like Skydrive, where the files get COPIED/SYNCHED before they can be accessed?

 

4) - Does the iTunes server functionality work remotely (i.e. can I access songs stored there from outside my home LAN)

 

5) - Can I back-up directly from MyCloud to a 3rd-party cloud, without going through a PC? With what software?

 

Thanks 

 

1 - No encryption, just user permissions that are easily removed from the dashboard.

 

2 - You won’t be able to unlock it remotely because Passport encryption is handled by another software , namely, Smartware or WD Security. The My Cloud remote access won’t open another program for you. So no.

 

3 - It’s a NAS. NAS drives don’t mount automatically on Windows by default, they are normally displayed in the Network section instead, which THEN allows you to individually map the shares inside the NAS and give them individual drive letters. it’s standard NAS behavior because a NAS is detected as a network resource… You know, in the network…

 

4 - No.

 

5 - Yes and no. Any software that allows you to use a NAS as a source will let you sync it, most of them will need a PC to be available with the program isntalled. The NAS itself doesn’t do it by default without knowledge of FTP.