This straightforward user interface makes managing this device a cinch, whether you're adding users, creating new shared folders or setting up backups through WD's SmartWare Pro app or Apple's Time Machine. There's a focus on web access and synchronisation that leaves you feeling you're turning on your own personal cloud. The web-based routine discovers it on your network, creates an account and sets up the drives. It's those users who will best appreciate how easy the new My Cloud Mirror is to set up. Connectivity is basic, with just two USB 3 ports on the rear plus the single Gigabit Ethernet, but for many home and small-office users, that's enough. It's quite noisy when starting up but very quiet in general operation, while power consumption never crept above a peak 18W in our tests, mostly hovering at 12W to 15W. If you do need to replace drives, they're easily accessible through a flap at the top of the unit. For a start, the design owes more to Western Digital's external hard disks than enterprise storage, and it comes populated with dual 2TB, 3TB or 4TB WD Red drives for a total of 4TB, 6TB or 8TB of capacity.
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