This is a strange first impressions review as I haven't actually seen the hardware. I'm using it though... let me explain. I am moving to Canada within the next few months, all going well. Taking my PC across in a shipping container is too risky and carrying hard drives with me also carries a risk (especially with border security). Added to this, my husband is already over there and keeps asking me to send across files left behind on computers here. DropBox doesn't cut it for confidential files so I looked for other solutions. We bought a WD My Cloud, 3TB and set it up in Canada. Set up was, apparently, easy and it was up and running very quickly. I installed the app on my desktop and we are also installing on iPads and on our Android phones. It also works with Mac and thunderbolt so we are good to go with Macs too. Using the thing is dead easy. Upload speeds are way faster than what I get with uploading to DropBox, but it also has DropBox support so can load to both. All in all, I can't find a negative with the My Cloud device - at this point anyway. Being extendable makes it even more useful but, for my purposes, getting all my important data to Canada in advance of my arrival and not having to worry about public cloud security or carrying hard drives is a great thing. I couldn't find anyone selling them in NZ but Amazon has them. WD won't ship here. AFAIK, the 4 TB version hasn't yet been released but I will be watching out for it. Specs for the wee beastie are here: http://www.wd.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1140It cost us $200 including taxes in Canada which, IMO, is excellent value for a 3 TB NAS we can access from anywhere in the world.
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