



You attach it to your router at home or small business and viola – you have local central storage for music, movies, documents, pictures, anything, and as a bonus it offers private cloud storage that you own and control – no rental space cost – allowing remote access from anywhere there is internet access.ĭon’t underestimate the value of central network storage. My Cloud Home is the latest iteration of the niche home NAS (network attached storage) market. But that is changing rapidly with NBN resellers offering 2000GB or more monthly plans at up 100/40Mbps upload/download that enables and completes the My Cloud Home equation. Private Cloud storage, however, did not take off then due to the extraordinarily high cost of broadband data and its very slow upload speeds – from a few kilobits to about 256Kbps. OneDrive, Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive, and Amazon et al.” Cloud can be anywhere, using any storage device, and has many providers e.g. WD’s latest My Cloud Home, designed for home networks and private cloud storage, has wisely continued the game-changing tradition set when its first model was launched in late 2013.īack then I wrote, “Cloud – in its most basic form – is about using the internet to store and retrieve data. WD My Cloud Home – the game changer has come of age (review)
