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There’s a difference between MyBook and MyBook Live. The Live version (this article) is ONLY accessible over the cloud service for some reason. Even if you’re o

by shash 5y ago

There’s a difference between MyBook and MyBook Live. The Live version (this article) is ONLY accessible over the cloud service for some reason. Even if you’re on the same LAN there’s no SMB, FTP or anything else. Only the cloud connection. The MyBook is a more normal NAS. Bought one of these for my dad few years ago without noticing the difference. Cheap, hobbled and bricked itself more than once. Even without this incident, would not recommend.

cmeacham98 5y ago
Seriously? What's the point of owning the hardware then, might as well just use Dropbox? Seems like you take on all the risk for essentially no benefit.
- gruez 5y ago
  >What's the point of owning the hardware then, might as well just use Dropbox? Seems like you take on all the risk for essentially no benefit. Dropbox costs $120/year for 2TB. WD live looks to be a one time purchase price for however many terabytes you want.
  - cmeacham98 5y ago
    To be honest, I just assumed the "Live" service was a subscription but it actually does appear to be one-time. I should note, however, that it seems the drive is built in and not easily user replaceable/swappable, so it's not really "however many terabytes you want".
  - thebean11 5y ago
    Hard drives are consumable devices. Dropbox sounds like a better deal considering you get redundancy, don’t need to replace drives when they fail, can recover deleted files for some amount of time (I think)..
    - Spivak 5y ago
      This is much much less of a problem for consumer workloads. A pair of hard drives can last a household a decade of moderate use without needing replaced.
      - thebean11 5y ago
        Sure in the best case. They could also fail 2 years in so you need redundancy to not lose data.
  - phire 5y ago
    Except turns out it wasn't a one-time purchase. Turns out that if you wanted your data to actually be safe, you had buy a new device every time Western Digital dropped support and stopped releasing security updates (3-4 years after launch), copy your data across and throw out the old device.
dikei 5y ago
I think you are confused between My Book and My Cloud * My Book: An external HDD that's attached to your computer through USB. * My Cloud: A NAS that's connected to your network through Ethernet, support SMB, FTP, NFS. There's also My Cloud Home, which is also a NAS, but you can only access your data through WD proprietary app, not SMB.
- thrdbndndn 5y ago
  Not sure why you're downvoted. What OP said > The MyBook is a more normal NAS is totally wrong. MyBook is just an external HDD.
- oldgradstudent 5y ago
  My Book Live: Older version of My Cloud.
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ValentineC 5y ago
> The Live version (this article) is ONLY accessible over the cloud service for some reason. Even if you’re on the same LAN there’s no SMB, FTP or anything else. Only the cloud connection. I found a user manual for a My Book Live model that suggests that it supports SMB, NFS, FTP, and AFP [1]. [1] https://media.flixcar.com/f360cdn/Western_Digital-905161691-4779-705058.pdf https://media.flixcar.com/f360cdn/Western_Digital-905161691-... (page 6)
calgoo 5y ago
I don’t know where you get this from, but my Live devices all support nfs/smb/ssh. I have both a cloud one and a normal black Live one.
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jacobmischka 5y ago
Sorry, but this is incorrect. I have a MyBook Live (says so on the device) which is accessible via LAN with SMB, AFP, FTP, etc. It also supports cloud access, I think, though I never enabled it and I don't currently want to replug it back in to check the (local) HTTP web interface to see what other settings it has.

by shash 5y ago

cmeacham98 5y ago

Seriously? What's the point of owning the hardware then, might as well just use Dropbox? Seems like you take on all the risk for essentially no benefit.

gruez 5y ago
>What's the point of owning the hardware then, might as well just use Dropbox? Seems like you take on all the risk for essentially no benefit. Dropbox costs $120/year for 2TB. WD live looks to be a one time purchase price for however many terabytes you want.
- cmeacham98 5y ago
  To be honest, I just assumed the "Live" service was a subscription but it actually does appear to be one-time. I should note, however, that it seems the drive is built in and not easily user replaceable/swappable, so it's not really "however many terabytes you want".
- thebean11 5y ago
  Hard drives are consumable devices. Dropbox sounds like a better deal considering you get redundancy, don’t need to replace drives when they fail, can recover deleted files for some amount of time (I think)..
  - Spivak 5y ago
    This is much much less of a problem for consumer workloads. A pair of hard drives can last a household a decade of moderate use without needing replaced.
    - thebean11 5y ago
      Sure in the best case. They could also fail 2 years in so you need redundancy to not lose data.
- phire 5y ago
  Except turns out it wasn't a one-time purchase. Turns out that if you wanted your data to actually be safe, you had buy a new device every time Western Digital dropped support and stopped releasing security updates (3-4 years after launch), copy your data across and throw out the old device.

dikei 5y ago

I think you are confused between My Book and My Cloud * My Book: An external HDD that's attached to your computer through USB. * My Cloud: A NAS that's connected to your network through Ethernet, support SMB, FTP, NFS. There's also My Cloud Home, which is also a NAS, but you can only access your data through WD proprietary app, not SMB.

thrdbndndn 5y ago
Not sure why you're downvoted. What OP said > The MyBook is a more normal NAS is totally wrong. MyBook is just an external HDD.
oldgradstudent 5y ago
My Book Live: Older version of My Cloud.

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ValentineC 5y ago

> The Live version (this article) is ONLY accessible over the cloud service for some reason. Even if you’re on the same LAN there’s no SMB, FTP or anything else. Only the cloud connection. I found a user manual for a My Book Live model that suggests that it supports SMB, NFS, FTP, and AFP [1]. [1] https://media.flixcar.com/f360cdn/Western_Digital-905161691-4779-705058.pdf https://media.flixcar.com/f360cdn/Western_Digital-905161691-... (page 6)

calgoo 5y ago

I don’t know where you get this from, but my Live devices all support nfs/smb/ssh. I have both a cloud one and a normal black Live one.

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jacobmischka 5y ago

Sorry, but this is incorrect. I have a MyBook Live (says so on the device) which is accessible via LAN with SMB, AFP, FTP, etc. It also supports cloud access, I think, though I never enabled it and I don't currently want to replug it back in to check the (local) HTTP web interface to see what other settings it has.