[lug] WD MyCloud NAS Details

[Bear Giles]

Don't forget offline backups - there's some malware that encrypts your hard
disk and that includes any online backups. That's been a nasty surprise to
people who thought they were covered since they have backups.


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Gary A. Romero <garomero at thegeek.nu> wrote:

> 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
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>
> 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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