Can i use the built-in USB port to access the files writeen in the HD Faster, or the access is only throught network connection ?
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Well, which is it? This question is critical. Can someone from WD weigh in? It's almost inconceivable you can't direct attach this to a computer via USB.
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Yep, you can use the USB connector and treat it like any other external hard drive.
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I have used a LAN(ethernet) cable from the WD MY Cloud to my laptop LAN port or my Roku3 LAN port with no problems.I can see my video, foto and music files on my Roku and I can read and write files from my laptop!At fisrt I always used it trough my router wired or wireless but now can use it direct connect via LAN cable!
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The previous answers are wrong. The USB port is for adding additional hard drives only. You can only access the files through the Ethernet connection.
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The USB port is strictly for adding additional cloud storage or to set up a mirror drive for backup.
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Sorry, I have no idea what you are asking me about, all I can tell you is that this drive works with a USB port, other than that, I can't help you :(
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Buy a hard drive with a LAN port built into it. Western digital makes several at decent rates. Also do a search for "LAN external hard drive"
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If your MAC is equipped with a USB 3 port use it to connect the drive. Ignore Firewire. If you only have a USB2 port available, use Firewire. Fastest connection possible is USB 3 with current technology!
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They claim it is a USB3, I even questioned them about it, but it does not seem to work any faster than a USB2. It does use a USB cable. It is a good drive and is probably limited by its read-write specs.
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I used it as an external drive. Even if you can take the HD out, you still need a sata connecting cable ($8.66 for 2). It has a USB-3 cable which is faster than the conventional USB-2. I wonder why you would pay the price of an external drive and use it as an internal drive, which usually costs less for the same capacity. I bought a WD 4 TB internal drive as D:
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No, this is a pretty terrible product in my experience. The only way to use it at all is with the network mode. Save yourself the trouble and just buy a stand alone hard drive.
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Yes, it only provides access to the drive via USB.You will need separate software for reading different filesystems (e.g. reading a windows hard drive from Mac / Linux) or any other operations you want to perform on the drive.
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no - USB ver 2there is a ethernet port if you want speedier access. Transferring files thru the device is not the fastest (as you would expect) but the process works fine.
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I think it should be a direct USB connection because it won't understand multiple external USB HHD or flash drives as multiple storages. It only works with a single storage device and it is really slow over network connections anyways. I tried 8GB flash drive and successfully set it up and used my PS3 to view its media/video files but if I want to fast-forward, it will fail sometimes. Also, the wireless connection will just get lost.
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It depends on the device you have. What device are you using with this drive?
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Short answer - don't know. There is nothing in the documentation to indicate you can. The USB port seems to be only for extending the drive space. I would say it is not intended to be connected to a computer via USB connection. Mine is connected via the wireless network and it works fine.
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no - its a network device with storage, access to disks are via the network
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No. it does not allow access to HD through a hub. but a usb hub can power this device.
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Any external USB hard drive can be used via the USB ports, the seagate HD is necessary to for the "convenient" slide in interface (it still leaves both USB ports open)
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There's not enough power (amps) through USB, it needs to be a self powered drive but yes it can hook up to the USB.Also must be formatted in FAT32.
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I'm getting just under 130MB/s read and write. It took under 2 hours to copy some files (around a TB) that took seven hours under USB 2.0.