14 DAY TRIAL // Cloud storage is today's main platform of transferring data between computers. Highly successful, and offering bigger and bigger available cloud storage space, apps like Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive became ominous quickly.
Wishing to join this wave of success and increase its flexibility in products and services, Western Digital started its own interesting business of cloud storing, but this time not on some company servers, but by giving customers their very own home servers.
My Cloud box is basically a platform on which you can connect all your devices that carry an internal memory, mostly tablets, smartphones, PCs and Macs, and have their data synced on My Cloud's internal HDD. Once there, the storage can be accessed via My Cloud OS software ecosystem that is basically shared among all your devices to have their data synced on your My Cloud unit in your house.
WD's My Cloud isn't revolutionary, but with proper implementation it might work great
The My Cloud system can sync data from your camera rolls of your smartphones as well, in order to immediately have your photos saved on a backup drive right after you took them. This way you won't ever have to worry when you need to reset your phone.
Since Western Digital first introduced this cloud storage system, it already updated the original design with a secondary internal hard drive. Called My Cloud Mirror, it basically mirrors the data you have gathered on your first drive on a second hard disk, always keeping your data safe at all times.
Although WD's personal cloud storing design seems pretty interesting in all aspects, some details have been left out, like what storage amount WD is talking about, and how customers will connect to My Cloud. Via Bluetooth, Wireless or simply Internet as in IoT? Many questions are left unanswered, but if WD really grabs the attention of the public with this device/system, then we'll see the true potential of WD's new cloud storing system.