WD My cloud 3 TB NAS. Initial impressions

published Jul 11, 2015 10:10 by admin ( last modified Jul 11, 2015 10:12 )

WD My cloud 3 TB network attached storage. Slick web interface.

Lots of connectivity to apps and punching through firewalls, and I have disabled all that. Runs a fairly standard Debian Linux, but with a different page size, and that means you cannot enable the normal Debian repositories. You should be able to hack and downgrade the device to its version 3.x which has a normal page size, but I never got that downgrade to bite.

It has gigabit ethernet, but saturating with a 100Mb transfers with rsync seems to make it veeery sluggish, so not sure if the Gb/s speed is actually attainable.

it has USB 3, but only for connecting to hard disks and similar, not to a computer. It wants to be the USB host. Kind of strange choice, that.