Before I had a home server or a home NAS, I used external hard drives for backup storage while keeping the most essential, need-to-have-access files in the cloud. Then I moved to mostly cloud storage ...

Editor’s Note: Western Digital restored its My Cloud service on April 12. The original story follows. Western Digital has taken its My Cloud consumer cloud and backup service offline as a result of a ...

On Friday, five days into a massive outage impacting its cloud services, Western Digital finally provided customers with a workaround to access their files. Since April 2nd, the outage has prevented ...

My Cloud devices running older firmware have been blocked from accessing Western Digital’s cloud services until they are updated to the latest versions. Western Digital has blocked devices running ...

Owners of Western Digital’s My Cloud network-attached storage (NAS) devices are unable to use the My Cloud service and access their devices due to a hacker attack. The attack was identified on March ...

You’re probably spending more time fixing your smart home than using it. Here’s how I cut down my family’s reliance on Alexa.

You’re probably sick of hearing about how important backups are, especially for personal devices and precious files. One thing that can be easy to overlook is your smart home setup, which could take ...

Western Digital Drops Support (and Remote Access) for Devices Running My Cloud OS 3 Expect a 20% discount coupon if your My Cloud/Book device is too old to update to OS 5.

Western Digital announced today that its network has been breached and an unauthorized party gained access to multiple company systems. The California-based computer drive maker and provider of data ...

The big picture: Western Digital announced last week that it's dropping support for older versions of My Cloud OS, the software used for managing My Cloud drives. As a result, drive owners still ...