Western Digital is one of the bigger names in the world of storage, besides Seagate. And recently, it announced a new product, the My Cloud Home. This is a new version of the My Cloud family that the company has had available for quite some time, and it actually uses a new suite of apps, so be...

WD's My Cloud Home provides storage you can access with a smart TV, secures personal cloud data, and it looks good too. Find out more in our My Cloud Home Personal Cloud review.

The design and styling of the hardware in the My Cloud Home is top-notch, with all its issues lying in the software components provided for it. The underlying platform is a solid one for which WD hardware engineers should be proud, and the software team needs to better support.

You should know before buying this that the USB port, that is supposed to allow you to connect an external drive directly to the My cloud home and access it remotely (which was the selling point for me) only recognizes a very limited number of external drive models.

If you're looking for a personal cloud storage that will backup the content on your smartphone's camera easily, this is it.

Easy to use and setup; Auto-backup for mobile

No wireless connection

I bought this by mistake - a stupid, lazy, expensive mistake. I thought I was buying a "My Cloud" - WD's NAS-lite solution for personal users. "My Cloud Home" is effectively nothing more than a stupidly overpriced photo storage box.

I already owned a WD MyCloud. I thought this new Home version would be an upgrade. I was wrong. The Home version is terrible. It's largely unconfigurable. You can't create new network share drives on it. You have to log on to a WD website to change its settings.

I've been wanting a NAS for a while for music sharing around the house and file backup. WD seem to be the standard so went for this new model. Couple of things to point out: 1. Very noisy upon initial install, file drop. But this seems to have calmed down now. 2.

So you need a little know how when setting this up as it's a little harder than the product makes out. You can back stuff up from the desktop it makes a folder for you on c: drive where you can drag and drop folders to save stuff and you can even make your own folders.

It's straightforward,simple to set up and use.The drawback is that it creates too many backupfiles and I can't seem to stop it from copying every file as soon as I get connected to it with my cell.Probably due to my ignorance.Overall it serves me well for what I do and that is sharing certain files...