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.

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.

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...