Western Digital "Cloud" device
I did not want to distract from the topic about on-line backup so I wanted to know if this device is anything special or just another hard drive backup. I would like to be able to keep all the device...
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I use mine for a back up primarily. I do get an e-mail after a power outage telling me that service to my MyBook was interrupted.
I never pursued using it as a cloud service like I thought I would. I think I tried but the interface wasn't user friendly. Maybe it was too slow, I can't remember.
Basically, my MAC gets backed up to it every night through my wifi network. I guess I could back up the net book or the kids Droid tablets, but hey, we don't use them enough to matter. All of our important stuff goes on our Apple devices and gets backed up through the MAC to it. That seems to work well.
I forget what all is shared on it, but theoretically, I could go to it wirelessly and pull my photos or music to other devices. Its much easier to synch the Apple stuff through the iTunes synch process, so why bother, I guess.
I never pursued using it as a cloud service like I thought I would. I think I tried but the interface wasn't user friendly. Maybe it was too slow, I can't remember.
Basically, my MAC gets backed up to it every night through my wifi network. I guess I could back up the net book or the kids Droid tablets, but hey, we don't use them enough to matter. All of our important stuff goes on our Apple devices and gets backed up through the MAC to it. That seems to work well.
I forget what all is shared on it, but theoretically, I could go to it wirelessly and pull my photos or music to other devices. Its much easier to synch the Apple stuff through the iTunes synch process, so why bother, I guess.
