Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Sure, there are plenty of physical storage options out there, but WD's new My Cloud does a little more than the traditional external hard drives. For starters, and as the name would suggest, My Cloud ...

File sharing with your own hardware doesn’t get any easier or cheaper than with the My Cloud Mirror. On the other hand, configuration for advanced capabilities is geeky, and the app environment isn’t ...

Between our smartphones, cameras and computers, we’re downloading and creating more content than ever. Which makes storing, managing and accessing that content a real challenge, especially if you have ...

I love the cloud. I depend on it. The cloud allows me to access my data from any device at any time; from anywhere I have broadband access. And I can share some or all of that information with other ...

WD's latest four-bay NAS server, the My Cloud EX4, is a lot more than four single-volume My Cloud units put together. In addition to having all the goodies of its predecessor, the new EX4 server has ...

The big picture: Western Digital announced last week that it's dropping support for older versions of My Cloud OS, the software used for managing My Cloud drives. As a result, drive owners still ...

In the consumer electronics world, simplicity is king. Manufacturers must constantly struggle to balance power and complexity with ease of use. Western Digital has been walking that tightrope for a ...

Performance, at first glance, doesn't appear to be a strong point. We would expect most NAS devices to saturate the Gigabit Ethernet interface, but My Cloud Home Duo managed modest sequential read and ...

Network-attached storage (NAS) can be an extremely useful addition to today's multi-device household. A centralised data store makes a whole lot of sense, as do regular backups from our desktops, ...