After reading the announcement in SNB I recently bought a My Cloud 3TB and yes, it worked out of the box, but the design is badly flawed:
a) The drive never goes into power saving mode. This means that it runs 24 hours per day continuously consuming 11W! Acceptable would be "non spinning drive" with 5W.
b) To compensate for that situation, the drive head gets unloaded after 8 seconds of inactivity. This is due to the famous head unload story of WD green drives.
In the few days the box is running, it reached a head load count above 6000 and it is easy to calculate when the drive will reach end of life according to its specification.
In the WD forum you can read many complaints about the two firmware updates from past months.
Any users of WD Cloud in this forum?
a) The drive never goes into power saving mode. This means that it runs 24 hours per day continuously consuming 11W! Acceptable would be "non spinning drive" with 5W.
b) To compensate for that situation, the drive head gets unloaded after 8 seconds of inactivity. This is due to the famous head unload story of WD green drives.
In the few days the box is running, it reached a head load count above 6000 and it is easy to calculate when the drive will reach end of life according to its specification.
In the WD forum you can read many complaints about the two firmware updates from past months.
Any users of WD Cloud in this forum?