Data recovery for WD MyCloud Home

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@AndrewHill

Why has WD not responded to this blatent issue? Ever since my device stopped connecting to LAN after the PCB burned out,

Unfortunately most ‘Home’ users don’t understand the integrity and safety of their data and neglect to do sufficient backup before it is too late. A lot of problems with the MCH have been well publicized years earlier if one had paid attention and researched this subforum.

It is exceedingly difficult to recover data from the MCH SMR drive for the home users once the damage is done.

Did You Buy a WD SMR Hard Drive? File Your Claim for Cash By Nov 27

What does this have to do with My Cloud Home (MCH)? Well, what you don’t know may hurt you (or your data). What most MCH users don’t know is that the greatest threat to their data may not be WD Discovery or KDDFS file system or the mobile apps. The greatest threat may be that the hard disk drive that is in their MCH is most likely a WD?0EFAX series of harddrives that uses SMR (shingled magnetic recording). Searching through the subform, I was surprised to find that there is only one mention…

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