![]() My thoughts on this have gone a few ways. They're sending me a coupon for 20% off a new drive from them in January, so there is no urgency to do the purchase right now, as I'm not planning to make the purchase until after the new year. I recently started getting emails from Western Digital that my drive would soon be out of support, and the cloud functionality would be discontinued for my drive in early spring of next year. I previously used symbolic links to make the network drive appear as local folders, but it didn't back up reliably, so that's out. This way is a little clunky, but it works. I do the backups like that because CrashPlan does not back up network volumes on Windows, and when I tried doing it by installing Linux on one of my other machines with some people who were more knowledgeable with Linux than I am, they couldn't make it work, either. I back it up by mirroring it to a 4TB local drive on my main computer, and that subsequently backs up to the cloud via CrashPlan, along with the data stored locally on my main computer and my OneDrive. I am currently using about 2.5 TB out of the total 4TB capacity, and at the current growth rate with my photography, I would outgrow this in about 2-3 years. I access it from within my home network as a network volume, and I also access it remotely via my phone. ![]() I use the drive mostly for "deep storage" of archived photos and videos that I've taken, as well as various other files that I need/want to hold onto, but that I don't need sitting in my OneDrive and taking up space there. I bought a 4TB WD My Cloud drive in August 2014, and I've been using it ever since without issue.
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