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here we go what's up guys Lew here back with another video and today we are checking out two products from WD these are from the my cloud series and essentially what you're looking at is something that sort of looks like a traditional hard drive but in this case it's actually some cloud storage these are network-attached you're not going to have these things connected locally to your laptop computer desktop or otherwise instead you can connect these to your router essentially have your files available to you no matter where you are now I have two of them here this one is kind of the more basic version two terabytes of storage one dry over here is the mirror and essentially what you're getting here is two physical drives inside and they're set up by default in a mirror mode or raid one for those technology enthusiasts out there that are looking for a reason to say raid because it feels good raid oh my hard drives yeah they're there in raid in the catastrophic event that one hard drive fails which can happen you've then got another backup so you've backed up to here and then it's backed itself up again to the other physical disk inside of this raid one or more simply mirror mirror mirror on the wall Jack's the fairest of them all so let's open these babies up and compare them this will work on PC Mac and there's also a mobile app so it'll work on iOS and Android if you can describe a setup explain how to set something up in a small piece of paper like that that's a good thing people like that plug it in to your router give it a few seconds my cloud.com slash setup oh of course an Ethernet cable some power an important component in any gadgets life power don't know what else to say about so there it is Oh here you've got your power Ethernet and then you've also got a USB 3 port it looks like you can probably then connect another peripheral here to this drive to then share via the network features on this bad boy look we have one more plastic wrap removal this is what you guys signed up for Oh a similar power port Ethernet port and in this case two USB 3 ports you've got your two physical drives installed desktop three and a half inch drives a power brick and an Ethernet cable what I'm going to do I'm going to take this mirror here and I'm going to connect it to the network and then I'm going to show you guys how the setup functions and I'll also sort of use it in conjunction with the drive that I'm currently using so you can see that both of them can operate in harmony okay so okay so now I've got the my cloud mirror connected to my router then you just install the my cloud app as an opportunity to manage any devices that are connected to the network in my particular case it just found the new my cloud mirror you can also see my ex4 which was previously connected in this same window here one of the features that is probably most useful for people is the ability to move stuff from your phone onto these giant storage devices so if I select mobile device from this drop-down menu here I'll go ahead and jump into camera for example taking a lot of video keeping a lot of music and so on and at some point you may end up having to delete stuff but in this case you don't have to you could just move it over to one of these devices right from on the mobile device if I select a photo here then I select this little menu button up here move and then here you can see the new WDM iCloud mirror click on that click on public shared pictures checkmark and just like that that photo is now uploaded so you got photos but what about video you can actually stream video from right within like this it's a little heavier for sure but let's say for example you got some music on here and you got a Bluetooth speaker like this one and you do a double stream stream to here and then stream that data over here to this Bluetooth speaker this song is not stored on my phone it's stored on the cloud in the cloud on the cloud near the cloud in it people are using their mobile devices more as their primary computing devices so having the support here to manage network-attached storage which used to be a fairly complicated thing to manage is pretty impressive sharing your files is really easy you can see your stuff that's shared with me and here's stuff that's shared with others and you'll see the share button comes up I can share a link with people who can then go ahead and view it from there or I can share it privately so that that link only works for them one of the things I liked is I'm not super organized I just chucked a bunch of stuff on it and it scanned it for certain types of media in the menu here you have all photos and it just it grabbed them same goes for music and videos for that matter so there you have it the WD my cloud mirror as well as just a regular my cloud whichever one's more suitable to you pricing and availability links will be down in the description and also going to be giving away a few of these thanks to WD we're going to give away two of the standard my cloud and two of the my cloud mirrors I'll be doing that on Instagram so head over to my Instagram for your chance to win just let me know what you might store on there keep it clean guys thanks very much for watching all the links that you need to know about down in the description leave a thumbs up if you enjoyed this and I'll catch you on the next episode later guys later jack