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Lqvik on 21/09/2014 - 00:52 amazon.com (1244 clicks)
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Good price on a relatively decent NAS. For a consumer orientated NAS, it has received good reviews. Sure you can find better but not at this price point.

It appears that the My Cloud Mirror comes installed with WD Red NAS drives.

http://youtu.be/kaA_-clrilU

(To avoid confusion, I should add that out of the box, this comes with RAID enabled so it has 4TB capacity.)

Cheapest price on StaticIce is $690

Camelcamelcamel shows that this is the lowest price it has been so far.

http://camelcamelcamel.com/Cloud-Mirror-2-bay-Personal-Stora…

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  • wfdTamar on 21/09/2014 - 04:50
    +1

    $650 on the Aust Western Digital site, so that is a good price.

    • couger on 21/09/2014 - 09:26
      -7

      Was $320 and $400 before.

      • qvik on 21/09/2014 - 10:51
        +4

        Those were for the My Book Live Duo. An older and slower model.

  • dan76n on 21/09/2014 - 06:02

    What would it take to fill one of these?

    • jollster101 on 21/09/2014 - 06:37
      +4

      A laptop, desktop and network or usb cable maybe.

      • [Deactivated] on 21/09/2014 - 08:14
        +4

        You would also need 8tb of data?

        • morini on 21/09/2014 - 14:17
          +17

          It is already full, pre-loaded with 4 trillion 1s and 4 trillion 0s, but you need to arrange them in the right order yourself.

        • RedHab on 21/09/2014 - 18:07

          @morini: hehe - actually more like 40 trillion 0's and another 40 trillions 1's :)

        • eckorock on 22/09/2014 - 09:57

          @RedHab:

          I calculated 34,359,738,368 bits x 2 which is 34 billion not 34 trillion
          maybe my math is wrong?

          1 bit x 8 = 1 byte * 1024 (MB) * 1024 (GB) * 1024 (TB) * 8/2

        • tarb on 22/09/2014 - 15:20

          @eckorock:

          Your forgot (KB 1MB =1024KB). And storage media use base10, so its 1000 per prefix, not 1024. With this in mind but without doing the math 40trillion sounds about right.

        • morini on 22/09/2014 - 20:37

          It was a typo! Both of them! :)

        • eckorock on 23/09/2014 - 12:04

          @tarb: sweet, yep

          35,184,372,088,832 which is the amount of bits in 4 Terabytes
          approx 35 trillion

    • pmupsinep on 21/09/2014 - 08:16
      +3

      11,570 M&M's.

    • Jabba the Hutt on 21/09/2014 - 09:27
      +2

      About 130 Blu-Ray rips once you halve the 8TB by enabling the advertised mirror mode (RAID 1). Or 160 hours of 1080p video from the highest quality mode an RX100 III camera.

      Would still need to spend more for a third drive to serve as the offline/offsite backup :-/

      • muncan on 21/09/2014 - 12:47
        +2

        The Blu-Rays are the backup :-\

        • Jabba the Hutt on 21/09/2014 - 14:09
          +1

          Backup against the weeks of daily re-ripping that'd be required is what I had in mind. For that many discs, it isn't something I'd ever want to repeat :-/

        • richox on 21/09/2014 - 14:28
          +3

          @Jabba the Hutt:

          if you actually owned the blu rays, i'd just 'guilt free' download off torrent or usenet. otherwise yeh - hundreds of hours of ripping.

  • dreamzz on 21/09/2014 - 06:38

    It's only 2 bay means 4tb with data protection, not a 8tb mirror, false naming

    • mrandyree on 21/09/2014 - 07:57

      By the looks of it "My Cloud Mirror" is WD'S 2 bay range of NAS(es?).

      Using the raw capacity in the name is pretty standard, plus its marketing material states pretty clearly that using it in mirrored mode uses up half of the capacity.

    • diamondd on 21/09/2014 - 14:17

      that's by default, it also has RAID 0, JBOD and spanning if you want the whole 8TB

  • cktftw on 21/09/2014 - 10:12
    +1

    Does it work as a normal RAID1 HD by connecting my PC to the USB port? Dont need it as a NAS

    • qvik on 21/09/2014 - 23:46
      +1

      I don't think it does

  • pang on 21/09/2014 - 12:41
    +1

    For me: Items: AUD 465.71
    Shipping & handling: AUD 28.45
    Total before tax: AUD 494.16
    Estimated tax to be collected: AUD 0.00

    • codfish on 21/09/2014 - 17:55

      $504 for me (Perth)

    • qvik on 21/09/2014 - 19:17

      I got the currency conversion off XE. Amazon don't charge you until they dispatch the item, so we'll see what the exchange rate is on the day.

  • motion2082 on 21/09/2014 - 19:47

    Not too bad, picked up 2x WD 4TB Reds for $345 the other day. Considering you get an enclosure this is an ok deal for anyone without a NAS

  • [Deactivated] on 21/09/2014 - 19:49
    +4

    This is good one, waiting for the price to drop, and it finally drops.

    Price is a bit more than the failed wd store $319, but this is a different better model, and sold by a much better seller.

    I still hold grudges against wd store. They can't just cancel their sale like that…

    • UFO on 22/09/2014 - 12:35

      I know its sad, but me too!

      I didnt think I'd care after a while, but the mere mention of "WD" still grates on me even now :(.

      And I'm a bloody WD fanboi (I dont like Seagate at all).

      What to do oh what to do.

      • qvik on 23/09/2014 - 17:08

        Well you can satisfy both urges. You can have a WD product, and know that you're hurting WD by buying at a discount enforced by Amazon that hurts their bottom line.

  • watts on 22/09/2014 - 10:43

    Anyone care to comment on this WD ($476 - amazon) v's Synology DS213J ($600 - local stock). Not sure if the Synology is worth the premium.
    cheers

    • qvik on 23/09/2014 - 17:06

      From what I can see the "J" is a cut down version of the DS213. So lower cpu speed @ 1.2Ghz (albeit the same as the WD) and no USB (where the WD has two 3.0 ports). I doubt that a local synology at that price would have NAS drives in it, but I'd be happy to be wrong.

      • watts on 23/09/2014 - 17:13

        cheers

        It does have USB..but only USB2.0. $600 price was based on recent PLE deal (now expired) for the WD Reds, and the 10% discount on NAS enclosures offered.

        https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/162072

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