Out of all the tabs the Cloud Access is the most interesting one. The WDs My Cloud desktop interface will have six tabs on top for Home, Users, Shares, Cloud Access, Safepoints, and Settings that will take the user to more customizations. The GUI is broken up into 6 different submenus: Home Users Shares Cloud Access Safepoints and Settings. The My Cloud NAS GUI is pretty simple to understand with large informative graphics that you can click on to obtain NAS information and settings. Before we do that though, lets take a look at some of the user interface that is at the heart of the My Cloud personal NAS. This is perfect for those of us with families or just want to have others with the rights to secured access to the NAS.Īnd with those few keystrokes, we are finished and ready to start loading up the drive with our content. The My Cloud software gave us the option of adding more users as well. It was so simple that I was a little worried of how useful and effective this service would be. To access our files from outside our home network, all we did was provide an e-mail address. The next screen is where we signed up for the Western Digital Personal Cloud Service. As experienced users, we normally just manually configure our network devices, but in this case we were not really sure what kind of configuration needed to be done so we just went followed what any typical user would do when installing the device.Īfter making sure the network was online and able to reach the internet, the WD setup software detected and displayed the drives serial number and assigned IP address. Overall, it is a really complete page that has a wealth of user manual-type information.Ĭontinuing our setup, we chose to download and install the setup software. There is a link for direct Western Digital support as well.
This is a pretty slick landing page where you can get a small tutorial of what a NAS is as well as how to use the cloud storage device. The My Cloud goes through a self-test that is indicated by the flashing LED light on the front and is ready for use in under 30 seconds.Īfter connecting the drive, we opened up our browser and navigated to and were presented with this screen: Everything that we need to get up and running is contained here.Ĭonnection was as simple as can be: Connect the WD My Cloud to our Netgear R6300 router and plug it into the wall.
The My Cloud comes with a small power adapter, a network cable, and a quick setup guide. The rear panel has a gigabit Ethernet port, power connection port, and a USB 3.0 port which only supports connecting USB drives, not printers. A blue LED for power is the only light in the front that stays solid when its powered up and flashing when there is data activity. Out of the box, we see that the WD My Cloud is only slightly larger than a standard internal hard drive.
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