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WD My Cloud network address. Detailed WD MY Cloud test. Design and hardware characteristics

The name of the new WD MY CLOUD network drive is translated as "My Cloud". Although in fact it is not quite a cloud and not even completely full of NAS. This is a convenient and compact device for reserve copy, a simple media server and a drive with the possibility of access via the Internet for more than modest money. As for the data transmission rates, My Cloud here is clearly not a leader. Yes, and with the level of reliability at a one-piece drive, where it is impossible to organize a RAID array, things are not too good. But he is not valuable.

What can I compare WD MY Cloud? For example, with Apple Time Capsule.Moreover, in "My Cloud" there is a built-in Time Machine support from the box. In addition, My Cloud will cost approximately one and a half times cheaper than the latter generation tower "capsules", and if you do not need the router functions and a wireless access point, the WD drive can be a good alternative. Yes, and the snow-white case My Cloud will fully fit into the "apple" family.

The direct competitor WD My Cloud is one-piece NAS Seagate FreeAgent Goflex Home, which also supports remote access via the Internet, Time Machine functionality and UPNP server. FreeAgent Goflex Home also does not put record records, and for connecting external drives It uses a slow USB 2.0, so that the WD MY Cloud is clearly wins.

Specifications

Built-in hard drive: 2, 3 or 4 TB with SATA interface
Interfaces: Network Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 (up to 5 Gb / s) for external drives
Supported operating systems: Windows XP / Vista / 7/8, OS x 10.6.8 and above
Protocols: CFS / SMB, NFS, FTP, AFP, DHCP, SSH, UPNP, DLNA and iTunes servers
Dimensions: 49 × 139.3 × 170.6 mm
Weight: 0.96 kg
Equipment: Ethernet Cable Category 5e, Network Power Supply
Price: About 5,200 rubles

Inside and outside

WD My Cloud heart - specially designed for network devices "System on Chip" MindSpeed \u200b\u200bComcerto C2200 with two Cortex A9 computing kernels on the Arm7 architecture that work on clock frequency 1.2 GHz. Microcircuits are also installed in the device. random access memory DDR 1600 MHz with a volume of 256 MB and a flash memory module with a capacity of 512 MB.

NAS 'Higher Class, as a rule, are not equipped with hard drives, providing a choice for the discretion of the owner. WD My Cloud, on the contrary, sold with the already installed hard drive, the role of which is 3.5-inch drive Western Digital series WD RED. This series includes hard drives, designed for NAS entry levels that combine from one to five drives. These hard drives with the SATA 6 Gb / s interface and variable spindle speed are characterized by increased reliability and are designed for 24-hour operation. In our WD MY Cloud modification, a 2 TB container is used, options with disks by 3 and 4 TB are also available.

The WD MY Cloud Case traditionally for external drives of this brand is made in the form of a book: "Binding" is made of glossy white plastic, and "block" with numerous ventilation holes - from silver plastics. Cooling is completely passive, so NAS has practically sneakers - you will hear only the quiet crackling of the hard drive. Unfortunately, different words are no longer encoded in the housing holes, as it was in the WD drives of previous generations, here it is already just a pattern.

No Hardware Controls at WD MY Cloud No - all commands are served via the network. Multifunctional installed on the front panel led indicator Operating modes, on the back - USB 3.0 port for connecting external drives, gigabit network port, Power supply connector and recessed inside the housing button reboot. On the bottom panel you can detect the information plate with serial number, MAC address and other service information, as well as four stable legs.

Software and web interface

The program base WD My Cloud, as the overwhelming majority of NAS, is Linux, in our case we are talking about Debian Wheezy. And this means that for a person understands, it will not be difficult to climb into his debris and expand the functionality of the device without making changes to its hardware. In particular, you can install a TRANSMISION torrent client in WD My Cloud that we have successfully done. About how exactly a little later. To use all WD My Cloud features, including access to files stored on it via the Internet, you need to connect the NAS to the router and configure the account in the online WD MY Cloud service. Of course, if necessary, you can connect the device directly to the computer and work with it as with a conventional external drive.

All settings and control WD My Cloud are done through a web interface, to get into which can be either through a shortcut appearing after installation, or simply typing the device's IP address in the browser. If you have created a WD MY Cloud account, you will get access to this interface and on mobile devicesoh, and you can also use the WD Photos app.

A fully Russified web interface is very concise, although it has all the necessary settings that are dispersed on five pages: "Users", "Resources", "Access to the Cloud", "Safepoints" and "Parameters". Wherein main page Performs not only purely information functions - You can immediately go to the windows of adding devices, users and resources ( network folders), just by pressing plusings. On the "Users" page you can add new users and customize their access rights, on the Resources page - add and configure access to shared folders. The "Access Cloud" page allows you to add mobile devices that can connect to the device via the Internet. On the "Safepoints" page, you can make a kind of backup copying, that is, to save data from WD My Cloud on an external USB drive or other device in local network.

On the "Parameters" page, all basic WD MY Cloud settings are carried out - from accessing SSH and FTP and inclusion dLNA servers (Twonkymedia) and iTunes before resetting the settings and update the storage firmware. The overall impression of the web interface is extremely positive: it is logical, understandable, beautiful, finally. And everything would be quite wonderful if there were not separate rules of Russification. For example, in the menu item of the system settings instead of " Fast recovery"And" Full recovery"For some reason, it is written" Fast Check "and" Complete Check ", although in the electronic manual to WD My Cloud is all right.

Festina Lente.

WD My Cloud does not demonstrate wonders of performance, and its indicators when accessing through a local gigabit network is not too impressed: the average by us using Helios LANTEST 6.6.6B4 The read speed of the 300 megabyte file was only 45.0 MB / s, and record 18, 7 MB / s - obviously not enough for a gigabit network. But do not forget that the speed of consistent reading and writing in a single-sized device is particularly highly dependent on file sizes: so, the measured reading speed of a 3 gigabyte file has already reached 63.6 MB / s, and 12 gigabyte - without a small 70 MB /from. And this is already a decent indicator. In any case, for a device of this class, calculated mainly on regular backups, high data rates are far from the main thing.

Water TRANSMISSION.

About the workability of WD My Cloud is particularly nothing to say, all declared functions it performs: backpage, streaming, accessible via the Internet from smartphones and tablets. It is much more interesting to talk about what you can do with this NAS, if you get into the Debian Wheezy operating system installed on it. But you immediately warn that if you manage to "drop it", then with the guarantee you have to say goodbye.

First you need to enable SSH access on the "Parameters" page of the web interface (Network → Network Services) and make the necessary settings in the SSH client, for example, in Putty for Windows. On the Session tab, you score the IP address of our WD My Cloud and save a session under the new name. On the "Data" tab, enter the name of the root superuser and the password (by default - WELC0ME, in the future, naturally, it is better to change it). Click the "Connect" button and fall into the Debian Console.

Choose Russian encoding by editing two files:

# Nano .bashrc.

EXPORT LC_ALL-C change to EXPORT LC_ALL \u003d "RU_RU.UTF-8", add the Export Lang \u003d "RU_RU.UTF-8" string below.

Save (, y, ENTER) and open the second file:

# Nano .profile

Here at the end add the same two lines:

EXPORT LC_ALL \u003d "EN_RU.UTF-8" EXPORT LANG \u003d "RU_RU.UTF-8"

We save, reboot NAS:

# Reboot

Before installing TRANSMISSION, you need to create two new folders to store temporary files and full torrents on WD My Cloud - Temp and Torrents. It is best to place them inside the Public folder or some other folder of the same level, otherwise the data will be written in the system section and will quickly make your NAS inoperable.

Now you can register the address of the repository, from where we will download TRANSMISSION:

# ECHO "DEB http://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ SID MAIN" \u003e\u003e / etc / apt / sources.list

Do it backup The original list of repositories:

# cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak

Update data on available packages:

# APT-Get Update

Finally, install TRANSMISSION and missing packages:

# APT-Get Install -T SID TRANSMISSION-CLI Transmission-Common TRANSMISSION-Daemon

After the installation is completed, stop the transmission daemon to edit the configuration:

# /etc/init.d/transmission-Daemon Stop.

We will install for it the right of superuser:

# SED -i "S / User \u003d Debian-Transmission / user \u003d root / g" /etc/init.d/transmission-Daemon

Now you need to edit the TRANSMISSION configuration file (by the way, remember that to change the config already working transmission, you need to stop the demon itself before opening settings.json, and not restart its process after changes). Open:

# Nano /etc/transmission-Daemon/Settings.json

First of all, you need to change the location of the folders created by us. If you have created them in the Public folder, the settings should look like this:

"download-dir": "/ datavolume / shares / public / torrents", "incomplete-dir": "/ datavolume / shares / public / temp", "incomplete-dir-enabled": true,

RPC-Authentication-Required: False, "RPC-Whitelist-Enabled": false,

By default, the port for accessing the torrent client is 9091, if you wish, you can change it in this row:

RPC-Port: 9091,

Of course, you can make other settings in the TRANSMISSION configuration file. Save them and exit from Nano back to the console (, y, enter). Restore the original list of repository:

# mv -f /etc/apt/sources.list.bak /etc/apt/sources.list

All, you can run TRANSMISSION:

# /etc/init.d/transmission-Daemon Start

If everything is in order, we will see the message "OK", after which you can open the application through its web interface by entering the WD My Cloud IP address in the browser and, through a colon, the port for access to Transmission (i.e. 9091 or other prescribed by us in settings). Check the performance, trying to download and distribute files.

For convenience, you can download special graphic interface For remotely installed, existing in versions for Windows, OS X and Linux. It will need to register your program settings (IP address, port), after which the GUI is ready for operation.

His money is worth

What do we have in a dry residue? Carefully collected network storage with a specialized processor and a hard disk, but at the same time only 1000 rubles more than the hard drive itself. In addition to the backup functions for Windows and OS X, this NAS provides remote access to files stored on it via the Internet, including with smartphones and tablets. The built-in media server is able to broadcast multimedia files to any DLNA and iTunes support devices within the local network.

Unfortunately, this is the functionality of WD My Cloud out of the box and is limited, but not trouble: Support SSH access to the operating linux system Debian allows enthusiasts to expand it at its discretion. We personally checked the possibility of installation and full performance, probably the most useful program for NAS' - TRANSMISSION, and this is a very serious plus for such an inexpensive device.

Test results

Creating 300 files for 20 KB: 15.1 S.
Opening / closing 300 files: 2.2 C.
Delete 300 files: 9.3 C.
Recording 300 MB to file: 18.7 MB / s
Recording 3000 MB to file: 24.2 MB / s
Recording 12 000 MB to file: 26.2 MB / s
Reading 300 MB from file: 45 MB / s
Reading 3000 MB from file: 63.6 MB / s
Reading 12,000 MB from the file: 70.8 MB / s
Blocking / unlocking file parts 16,000 times: 20.2 C.
Read folder (640 files): 157.5 ms.

New generation of personal cloud solutions for data storage from WD.

New WD My Cloud provides users with a convenient and secure network storage for all digital content, access to which can be made from anywhere in the world from a computer, tablet or mobile device using the Internet. Thanks to new technologies, My Cloud users can provide access to their files, run streaming broadcasts and work safely with your data without any subscription fee.

Connecting and configuring WD My Cloud

For connecting and installing software, it takes automatically in minutes. You only need to enable My Cloud into the outlet and connect the LAN cable to any free port on the home router. One minute in your home network New equipment will appear.
WD My Cloud can automatically recognize the connected drive, which makes work with the system even easier.

To configure remote and secure access to My Cloud via the Internet, it is enough to download from the manufacturer's WD.com/Setup/WDMYCLOUD a small utility. It is called, like the device itself - "My Cloud". The program is available for both Windows platforms and Mac OS. The next setup step is to come up with a login and password for yourself and to all those you want to provide access to the WD MY Cloud device. A request for 5 minutes of registration The device will be ready for use not only from the house, but also via the Internet from anywhere in the world. Conveniently?

Moreover, you can connect to the tablet device and cell phones without additional setting And use them to access My Cloud. To do this, it is enough to authorize the device once, entering a special code offered by the installation wizard.

Unique WD MY Cloud features

Another advanced characteristic is the POL support DLNA. 1.5 and UPNP. Thanks to this, the WD My Cloud's home network will be seen to all sorts of televisions, media prefixes and players. Thus, keeping on my cloud photos, music or video The entire media system can be broadcast to the home theater directly! The device is fully compatible with the library iTunes and the escape stored media system will be available on all the Macs, as well as on Apple TV.

Many photographers, working with the customer, came across the problem of transferring the archive with photographs in several gigabytes. Via the Internet convey big file. Now it is problematic and often you have to create an archive, break it into parts, and after explaining how to download it all and get back. For all WD MY Cloud owners, this is not a problem, as you can send a link for any file stored in the device, by e-mail Anyone. For this with My Cloud, you simply send a link to the folder to the folder and the formation of the archive reference occurs automatically. The customer downloads the file in format.Zip and on the device the archive is not created. Agree, it is very convenient.

WD MY CLOUD performance

My Cloud is a super-modern device with a powerful dual-core processor, a fast hard disk inside and constantly updated firmware. WD My Cloud certainly exists analogues and often users of similar devices are strongly upset due to the low data rate. My Cloud works comfortably with large files with speeds: 10 megabytes / sec for a common Internet LAN, as well as 80 megabits / s for 3G \\ 4G.

When testing the speed of My Cloud using the Blackmagic Disk Speed \u200b\u200bTest utility for a 100 megabitable wired access speed, it was not descended - 11-12 MB / S (megabyte per second), which is very worthy. Also was tested with a wired connected to a gigabit network. As a result, the speed approached the practical limit of the best Gigabit Ethernet interface today - 54-66 MB / S (Megabyte per second).

WD MY CLOUD extensibility

The device model range is represented by 2, 3 and 4 TB drives, but you can also additional gesting discs. To do this, in My Cloud on the rear panel there are numerous USB 3.0 interface connectors. After connecting an additional gesting disk, an additional folder will be available for the user. In practice, it is checked that the speed of working with an external plug-in hard disk 4 TB is not less than the main speed - WD My Cloud. Thus, it becomes possible to use the Cartrider connected to USB 3.0 and using a speed-speed memory card to back up the required files.

Mobile app

Mobile application "My Cloud", also has access to all basic functions of your device. You can copy, move, create new folders, send direct links by email and much more. For example, photos and video files can be viewed without downloading them to a mobile device. There is also full support Google Drive., Dropbox I. Microsoft Skydrive. And no restrictions on file operations were found.

Also for mobile devices WD has developed a special photo reception WD Photos. It has functional differences from mobile application My Cloud. With WD Photos you can view images in various modes, sort photos from dates, save photos and video from your smartphone, broadcast the slideshow from your photos right on the Appletv. Photos that are downloaded in WD Photos are available for viewing in the offline mode (without connecting to the Internet) that is also quite convenient. For the WD Photos application, a certain restriction has been supporting only images in JPG format.

Features My Cloud.

My Cloud supports several non-obvious features. First of all, it is backing up the contents of your system. For Windows platforms, there is a software - WD SmartWare Pro. For MacOS users, backup is available using Time Machine native support.

It is also possible to backup all WD My Cloud files to any drive available in the same network if it is necessary (this function is called safepoints). Advanced users will be interested in the opportunity to access files by fTP Protocol. For example, this will allow you to work with programs for cataloging photos Photo Mechani or Lightroom. The full FTP can be used in the menu: Parameters - Network.

You will always be aware of what is happening with WD My Cloud. There is a function that sends a detailed report on the operations to your email. My Cloud will instantly create a report and send a letter if a new USB device is connected.

Conclusion

The MY Cloud device from WD is designed for use as a personal cloud storage data and showed itself indispensable. The device is perfect. It is not audible and not visible, and the volume of functions greatly simplifies the life of the user. My Cloud is available in versions of 2, 3 and 4 TB. Their price is 150, 180 and 250 dollars, respectively. If the volume on the storage ends, then there is nothing easier than buying an ordinary external disk Like My Book on 4TB and at once to significantly expand the capabilities of your repository!

Working with device and testing

MY Cloud web interface

The MY Cloud connection and configuration processes are completely similar to those of the two-disc model My Cloud Mirror and are described in sufficiently detailed by us in the relevant section of its review. The main function of My Cloud is to provide remote access to the user data from any corner of the world where there is an Internet.

Setting remote access To My Cloud.

But before using this opportunity, you need to make minimal settings via the web interface - enter the current email address and come up with a password. Next, you can go to the site wdmycloud.com and by entering your registration data, download and install the WD My Cloud application, with which and is available access to the resources of the drive.

Working with WD MY Cloud app

The WD My Cloud application can be installed both on the desktop and on any mobile device running Android and iOS OS. Working with the application is pretty simple and generally does not differ from working with any file manager.

Working with WD MY Cloud application for mobile devices

Download mobile version WD My Cloud can be from the services Google Play. For devices with Android or AppStore for Apple devices. Setting up remote access from mobile devices and working with them is not much different from the same process for desktop PCs - only the exception that when working with a mobile application, the user is offered to choose from to connect to the MY Cloud network drive found or to one of the network cloud services , such as Dropbox, Google Drive or Skydrive.

Working with WD Photos for Mobile Devices

For mobile devices, you can also install the WD Photos application for viewing the photos located on the accumulator. He has a little opportunity, but a high-quality slide show, this small utility will provide.

But in something the possibility of one-piece model is still limited. And it comes here not only about the very natural absence of functions for creating RAID arrays - with one disk to do it, let's say it is very problematic. The point that My Cloud is not able to work with downloads by HTTP, FTP and P2P protocols. For some, this deficiency can be very significant. The rest of the MY Cloud control is almost no different from the My Cloud Mirror.

Testing the device was carried out with a regular hard disk from the delivery kit. Test stand for speed checking has the following configuration:

cPU Intel Pentium. 4 631 3.0 GHz;
systemic aSUS board P5KPL (Intel G31);
RAM 4048 MB DDR2-800 SDRAM;
video card RADEON X550 128 MB;
INTEL X25-M SSDSA2M160G2GC SSD-Drive 160 GB Capacity;
Windows 7 Ultimate OS.

Evaluation of the performance of the reference SSD disk

The own speed of reading and writing a test bench was about 200 MB / s, so it will not limit the performance of the network drive. On the disk, an open folder was opened for shared access connected in the test stand as a network drive. Testing was carried out using the ATTO DISK Benchmark and Nas Performance Tester programs. Its results are presented below.

Performance My Cloud.

In addition, serial transmission of packets consisting of files was carried out. different types: Video (Four VOB files of 965 MB each), photo ( jPG files the total volume of 655 MB), audio (MP3 files with a total volume of 775 MB), as well as saved Internet pages - various files are very little size (Shared files of 63.3 MB). Test results are presented on a histogram below.

MY CLOUD Performance Test Histogram

Test results have some discrepancies in the evaluations of the recording speed, but in general, they are not well consistent with each other. The speed of reading and write differ significantly among themselves - the values \u200b\u200bare the first almost twice the second values. But for the main goal - a remote reading of data - this NAS according to its performance indicators is practically perfect. To write data (for example, for reservation), it, of course, is also suitable, but it does it not so quickly.

Well, in terms of noise My Cloud is generally perfect. The operation of this device can be heard only in complete silence and only with the active contact of the hard disk. Such a device can be safely put into the bedroom, without fear of your sleep. At the same time, tangible heating of the case for all time testing was noted never.

⇡ Conclusions

The Network Drive My Cloud can be recommended to purchase if you need a full NAS, but there is no need for several disks combined into a RAID array. In this case, the repository can be successfully used as a selected permanent file server, providing round-the-clock access to personal data from anywhere in the world, and as a silent home media center.

Its main advantages include:

convenient and very simple in terms of configuration control software,
high read speed
almost complete silent.

Disadvantages also have:

sole USB port on board,
cutting capabilities of the managing software.

But the most surprise is not the performance of this network drive, not its capabilities, not its dignity or disadvantages, but its price. If from the ultimate cost of NAS deduct the retail price hard diskthen it will be less than one thousand rubles! For this more than a modest amount you buy a full NAS. Take it!

Do everything in your own way

Password protection

Place for centralized storage and streamlining all your data
An impressive capacity for centralized storage of the house of photographs, video recordings and files from all your phones, tablets, computers and external drives. Just connect the device to your wi-Fi router And configure using a smartphone. Without a computer. Without a monthly subscription fee.

Synchronization of desktops
Provide constant synchronization of your favorite folders on the PC and computers MAC. With My Cloud Home.

Impeccable video playback from anywhere
Using My Cloud Home applications for mobile devices and desktops, as well as using MyCloud.com, you can play your videos on any devices from anywhere.

My Cloud Home Duo - doubly reliable
Each MY Cloud Home Duo drive is equipped with two hard drives operating in mirroring mode (RAID 1), so all your photos, videos and other files are stored on one disk and are automatically copied to the second disk, which provides additional confidence in their safety.

Search function that allows you to quickly find the necessary files
A simple search function in My Cloud Home applications for mobile devices and desktops, as well as on MyCloud.com website will help you quickly find the right photos, videos, movies and documents.

Separate closed space for each user
Invite family members and friends to create individual accounts. Each guest user can configure a separate closed space on the device, access to which will only have. Such a user will be able to manage its content, access access and share it at its discretion.

Do everything in your own way
Configure to My Cloud ™ Home all in your own way: work with Dropbox ™ or Google Drive, compatibility with SONOS smart speakers, support for streaming through Google Chromecast. and PLEX MEDIA Server ™.

Download from cloud service for centralized storage of all data
All data can be stored in one place, even the contents of your accounts in cloud services. Photos, videos and other files from your accounts in cloud services, including Dropbox, Box, Google Drive ™, Facebook and many others, are automatically downloaded to the My Cloud Home device. one

Automatic backup data from all home PCs and MAC computers
The My Cloud Home device has a huge container and connects to your network for wireless data backup from each home computer to a single centralized storage. It works without problems with the backup program for Windows and Time Machine.

Password protection
Protect all your contents from curious eyes by installing a unique password for your account My Cloud Home, as well as use secret code And Touch ID protection for your mobile application My Cloud Home.

Place for centralized storage and streamlining all your data
An impressive capacity for centralized storage of the house of photographs, video recordings and files from all your phones, tablets, computers and external drives. Just connect the device to your Wi-Fi router and configure with a smartphone. Without a computer. Without a monthly subscription fee.

Synchronization of desktops
Ensure a constant synchronization of your favorite folders on PCs and Mac computers with My Cloud Home.

Impeccable video playback from anywhere
Using My Cloud Home applications for mobile devices and desktops, as well as using MyCloud.com, you can play your videos on any devices from anywhere.

Do everything in your own way
Configure My Cloud ™ Home in your own way: work with Dropbox ™ services or Google Drive, compatibility with SONOS smart speakers, support for streaming through Google Chromecast and Plex Media Server ™.

Password protection
Protect all your contents from curious eyes by installing a unique password for your MY Cloud Home account, as well as use the Secret Code and Touch ID Protection for your MY Cloud Home mobile app.