WD My Cloud Home 8TB
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Create a personal cloud with the WD My Cloud Home 8TB NAS and store all of your 4K movies, photos, and games. As opposed to a standard external hard drive, you can connect the My Cloud Home to your network. This way, you can easily access your own files from anywhere in the world. You can, for example, easily stream a movie from your smartphone to your television without the need for a computer. You can also edit your holiday pictures and look at them at a travel companion's home without even having to take the pictures with you on a USB flash drive. Since the My Cloud Home gives you access from anywhere in the world, you can also easily create backups of photos and videos on your phone.
Number of hard drive slots | 1 | |
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Suitable for hard drive size | 3.5-inch HDD | |
Internal RAM | 1 GB | |
Processor cores | Quad-Core (4) | |
Built-in hard drive | ||
Total storage capacity | 8 TB |
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I have 2 WD hard drives. The mycloud and now also the new MycloudHome. The old version is much easier to use. The new mycloudhome works with the plex program. Already 3 times allowed to start over with setting everything up before it works correctly. Definitely not recommended to work with that program. Sometimes may or may not find the mycloudhome. While with the old version of mycloud everything works perfectly, never had any problems with that. I would certainly not buy a new mycloudhome, rather than move to another brand or type.
Benoit Declercq
8 June 2018
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Only downside, and I really mean CONS is that there is no offline UI, and completely online dependent. You can only adjust maybe 5 options online. (This was not the case with the previous series of this.)
Do you also want to install special software to connect a network drive to your PC? This should be a nose. And technically does everything it says on the packaging. This is not NAS!
This is a kind of cloud that you put at home that another company can manage/view...(use?). So fine if nothing ever goes wrong with:
(suppose the website WD has moved that link or no control panel)
(which is difficult to connect to a PC from within your own network)
(reading activity/performance/user data......
I give up talking about this.......
Advice: Buy yourself a synogoly series 217 play (2bay) or 5*series (5 bay) and beyond.
Manage everything yourself, use various services and do this all over your lan without messing around. With a 2 bay you get 24 TB
DLS
16 November 2017
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I don't like it at all. I use a NAS to store DVDs etc and then play them anywhere with a media player, for example. None of this is possible. You can only access it with software and you cannot create a mapping that can be accessed everywhere. I liked the previous version much better and it is already 6 years old.
CP van Assenbergh
18 November 2019
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Product number | 794254 | |
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Manufacturer code | WDBVXC0080HWT-EESN | |
Brand | Western Digital | |
Warranty | 2 years | |
Processing of your defect | Via Coolblue | |
Old product returned for free |
Built-in hard drive | ||
|---|---|---|
Replaceable hard drive | ||
Number of hard drive slots | 1 | |
Suitable for hard drive size | 3.5-inch HDD | |
Total storage capacity | 8 TB | |
RAID | JBOD | |
Internal RAM | 1 GB | |
Total number of RAM slots | 1 |
Connection type | Wired | |
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LACP Link aggregation | ||
Thunderbolt connector | ||
Number of Ethernet ports | 1 |
NAS functions | Backup server, Media server | |
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NAS application center | ||
Plex support | ||
Type of Plex support | Full HD (1080p), HD Ready (720p), SD (480p) | |
Number of IP camera licenses included | None | |
DLNA | ||
UPnP AV support | ||
FTP server | ||
On/off switch | ||
Kensington lock | ||
Apple Time Machine support | ||
Chromecast support | ||
Suitable for IFTTT | ||
Recommended for use | Media streaming, Personal cloud, Store photos and videos |
Processor brand | RealTek | |
|---|---|---|
Processor family | A53 | |
Processor code name | Cortex | |
Processor cores | Quad-Core (4) | |
Clock speed | 1,4 GHz |
Depth | 8 cm | |
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Width | 22,6 cm | |
Height | 20 cm | |
Type NAS | Upright | |
Color | White | |
Weight | 1,4 kg |
