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Reddit mentions of WD 3TB My Cloud Personal Network Attached Storage - NAS - WDBCTL0030HWT-NESN
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We found 6 Reddit mentions of WD 3TB My Cloud Personal Network Attached Storage - NAS - WDBCTL0030HWT-NESN. Here are the top ones.
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Centralized, whole-home storageMobile and remote web access, Backs up PC and Mac computersPhoto and video backup for smartphones and tablets, Operating System - Windows/MacSync software to keep content up-to-date across all your computersCreates a common place for friends and family to share photos
Specs:
| Color | White |
| Height | 6.3 Inches |
| Length | 7.6 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Size | 3TB |
| Weight | 2.1164377152 Pounds |
| Width | 8.2 Inches |
As an IT guy I REALLY recommend you use something like Google drive. It's cheap or free for a few gigs and you can set it up to back up any directory you want on Mac or PC. Back up your stuff! Or invest in a NAS for your home, because it's attached to the network you can have your laptop, PC, etc, back up to it every time you connect to your home network.
In your shoes, I'd probably go for the 128GB, and carry around only the things you need on the road. Then, with that $200 you'd spend, but yourself a decent Network Attached Storage drive like that.
It'll be accessible from your network, and supposedly over the internet. I say supposedly because I don't have any personal experience with them.
This way, you get the best of both worlds. Enough local storage for your day to day, and more remote storage than you'll need for a long time.
> network backups are expensive
Not really. You can get a NAS for like $150 bucks (Consumer-Grade, but something > Nothing). Set the NAS up to only allow a service account "Backup User" to write to it, and then install something like Veeam Endpoint Backup on the machine and explicitly tell the software to use the service account when backing up. Boom.
Honestly, you could probably do the same thing with a regular drive. Mount it, set the permissions on the drive to only allow writes by the service account, and then configure Veeam the same way.
sorry for the late response, but would this also be a solution?
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EVVGAC6
i imagine i could just connect this directly to my router via ethernet and use the wd software to access the files rather than having to connect the my book via usb and access the router through asus software.
or is this the same difference? (basically either device works fine for my intended purpose)
thanks!
You're looking for a NAS- network attached storage.
Often they can be more expensive than just a "crappy" desktop.
Or something like a Western Digital My Cloud.
WD 3TB My Cloud Personal Network Attached Storage - NAS - WDBCTL0030HWT-NESN
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EVVGAC6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZqI1BbTTV6XFF
A 4tb hard drive is around $160, 3tb is $110. You will need more than 1 hard drive if you want any kind of redundancy for drive failure. You can get a synology(best brand if you dont want a rock solid platform with all the features) for around $150,+160 for the hard drive. If you are just using the drive for media, movies, music, things you can download again then raid is un needed. Backup your really important files in more than one location, possibly use a service like symform to keep your important files in the cloud.
Anything cheaper than a synology is not going to do everything, and be fast. You can get a buffalo or drobo for less money. But the synology is going to be much more reliable and well supported. If you had the time you can build a very cheap server with an OS like nas4free. It will probably consume more power and have some bugs you will have to work out, it makes more sense to do that when you want 5+ disks.
On the really cheap side you can get one of these integrated units, but dont expect it to do much besides copy files. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EVVGAC6