Lessons learned from building a personal cloud on an SBC, and what I’d change for stability, storage, and access.

My PC became the hub, and the cloud became optional.

Between storage expenses, AI bloat, and privacy concerns, I've finally decided to ditch Google Drive for hosting my own documents on my NAS.

We like the simplicity of the WD My Cloud Home Duo’s portal-based setup and access. But ridiculously slow write performance will waste way too much of your time, and the inability to back-up to USB ...

The My Cloud EX2 is the latest in WD's My Cloud series of NAS servers and share the same feature set as the original My Cloud and the My Cloud EX4. But it does at least one big thing of its own: In my ...

Page Jump: ===== 1 - A New Breed Of My Book 2 - One Cloud For All Your Devices A New Breed Of My Book WD's popular line of My Book external storage solutions have, over the course of the past decade, ...

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 ...

Western Digital's My Cloud EX4 is a good introductory NAS for small offices, offering very good drive and data recovery, easy remote access, and basic business NAS features. It is not, however, ideal ...

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 ...