here is a great deal for 8TB
the second lowest price according to 3camels from amazon(lowest price was for a day)
http://camelcamelcamel.com/Personal-Cloud-Storage-Share-Phot…
US $430 => ~ AU $476
couldnt find it lower than that,
I dont know what I am going to do with 8tb but look great deal
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Says up to 1000 Mb/s in the description.
Lol, and that's still bits, not bytes hahah.
Well that is the fastest that ethernet currently allows.
I must be missing the joke.
maybe this non english speaker thinks that consumer hard drives can read or write at 1000 megabytes per second?
"hahah."
It is in reference to the first comment of 10Mb/s.
I'm confused then.
1000 Mbits = 100 MBytes.
Where's the joke?
Mb/s = Megabit/sec
MB/s = Megabyte/sec
The differences is in the capitalisation of "b".
Whilst it's a great $/GB ratio, it's a pretty average NAS that can't be used as a Plex server or download torrents even.
Do we know if these use the red drives?
That's a lot of data to lose if it fails. It doesn't even have a fan! It gets some shockingly bad reviews. It's configured as RAID 0 out of the box which effectively halves reliability, as if one drive fails it takes out everything.
I've tried WD printer sharing software with my router, it's absolute rubbish, very unreliable. I wouldn't trust the backup software that comes with this NAS to be any better, and reviews say it's not very good.
Surely anybody who wants reliable storage would be better off with an HP microserver. It's not Plug & Play and will certainly cost a bit more but I wouldn't trust a consumer-grade box like this with all my stuff. The warranty period is not clear but I'm guessing it's only 1 year, while purchasing separate components sometimes gets you 3 or 5 years per hard drive and you get much better quality hard drives.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236…
According to NewEgg it comes with 5,400rpm Green drives.
Here's the WD product page:
http://store.westerndigital.com/store/wdau/en_AU/pd/ThemeID.…
+ve for price but -ve for actual value.
Great information, thanks for that.
For the warranty usually WD offers 2-3 years on their hard drives. I think you can take the hard drive bought from amazon to australia WD. (Once contacted Amazon about a problem I had with my book they offered wait for a replacment or contact australian WD to look after my problem)
Australian WD!? Last I checked there was no WD office in Australia.If you go onto the WD site for warranty, it will have you ship it to Singapore.
I asked for a replacment, but before i asked they gave me this link
http://support.wdc.com/country/country.asp?c=australia
I am not sure where i should send it to
Picked up 1 of the new mycloud drives the other day with the 4TB red drive in it. Happy so far, but different purposes :) (again, can't use it for torrent etc)
Had a look around, for about $500 you could get 2x3TB my cloud drives. So 2TB less than OP, but newer and better drives, more reliable, and not in Raid format. Food for thought :)
Can you user this as an external USB 3 drive?
If it fails, can't you open it up and run a software recovery tool on it?
4TB drives are about $180, so this is $100 extra for the cloud Ethernet??
Hi i have a spare desktop computer running 24/7 with 500gb hard drive already. What do i need to do to make it so that i can use it as a personal cloud storage where all my other computers link up to that storage via cloud? Thanks
Network Connection: Ethernet 10 Mb-s
Surely not? Wow…