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.

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.

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

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...