[lug] WD MyCloud NAS Details

[Gary A. Romero]

I have one of the 2tb units and it works fantastically. These devices have a USB3 port that can be used to expand or backup the device data. I personally use a 2TB WD Passport that I use to do a full backup of the machine on a regular basis which is set up via the web interface. I can also confirm that there is no video hardware on the board.

I'm sure there are tons of things that could hacked into these devices. I have seen people hack the 'My Book' version to host owncloud.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Maxwell Spangler" <maxlists at maxwellspangler.com>
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 2:54:21 PM
Subject: Re: [lug] WD MyCloud NAS Details


On Tue, 2014-01-07 at 14:28 -0700, Davide Del Vento wrote: 

Thanks for the tip. 

Would you expect the 2TB being exactly the same, besides capacity of the disks? Sometimes similar products are very different inside. 
I would expect the 2, 3 and 4 TB versions to differ only in the phsyical drive used. 



Does it have a video card or will be easy to install one? I see the enclosure does not have a video output, but maybe the embedded card does have it inside. 

I don't think there is any chance of getting video on these guys. 

It would really nice to investigate people hacking them and discover that software is in place to use USB3 based video or serial converters to provide it. With USB based KVM that would take a way a lot of the fear of making a change and bricking it. But, that's not WD's focus so I wouldn't get my hopes up. 

If you're looking for a small server that can function as a NAS but has more capability and interactivity, then one of HP's G8 Microservers might fit well. They have 4 drive bays, PCIe slots and even HP's really wonderful iLO out of band, network based console KVM management. So you can put it in your basement and fully control it as if you were physically in front of it. More expensive, though. 	
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