Customer Ratings & Reviews

I bought this to use primarily as a backup device. I have found it to work flawlessly in this regard. Upload can be a little slow, but this applies mainly to the initial backup. Subsequent backups go rather quickly. The iOS app works well. Files can be downloaded, uploaded, & attached to messages or emails using my phone. I am able to access my data anywhere from my phone. It streams quite nicely to my TV's. My entire network is mostly wireless and all is well. The only problem I have experienced is that the drive will not stream .mov files to the TV's. I have to use a USB drive either connected to the TV or router, strange. I am quite happy with my purchase as it has made getting all of my files organized in a central location.

If you want to store pictures or files then this is the drive for you. But you cannot stream Plex at all on it. I tried using the App in WD NAS and it freezes and buffers after 4 minutes. I tried to use plex on my server and just streamed the movies from the NAS as storage only, and the same thing! When I put all the movies on my PC Hard Drive, and install Plex it runs great!! And the PC is upstairs on a USB wifi adapter. The NAS was plugged directly into my 1GB Switch, and the TV I was trying to stream from was 10 feet away from a 5GHz Wifi...so the drive just can't process fast enough. Very upset and don't even need this thing. I can store crap on my USB I don't need a $300 unit that can't even stream.