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Those features make the drive a more-than-capable media server and its pre-installed Twonky server will also let you stream files to any DLNA-capable player. (We say “theoretically” because we hit some snags with 4K footage - more on that in the Performance section.) If you’ve captured video, you can theoretically watch it directly on your handheld device using the My Cloud app’s built-in media player by just tapping on the file you want to watch.
The My Cloud app has a built-in player for both forms of media, so you can listen to music while out on a shoot without chewing up cellular data or eating into your phone’s onboard storage with music files. You can also store music and video files on the drive.
It’s basically intended to be used in the same way as the SD Card slot, letting you plug in an external drive (like, say, a USB thumb drive or a CompactFlash memory card reader) and then press the transfer button to dump the contents of that drive onto the WD’s internal SSD storage.īeing USB 2.0 only though, transferring from external storage devices is slow – 2.0 transfer speeds max out at about 33MB/s, which is less than 10% of the speed the onboard SSD supports.
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You’ll be better off using the provided USB 3.0 cable to access files directly on a PC or Mac.Īs we mentioned earlier, the Wireless SSD also offers a secondary USB 2.0 port that’s On-the-Go compliant. You can access files on the drive wirelessly on a computer as well - when you’re on the drive’s Wi-Fi network, it shows up as an SMB file share - however when it comes to transferring those files, you may want to keep in mind it’s a rather slow process over wireless.
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If you have a Google Drive or Dropbox account, just tap ‘Manage device/services’ on the My Cloud app and add whichever services you use.įor wired access to files from a PC or Mac, all you need to do is plug the provided cable into your laptop or desktop's USB port - ideally, a USB 3.0 or faster one in order to be able to take full advantage of those SSD transfer speeds. You can also optionally link cloud services from other providers to the WD My Cloud app, then browse through the contents on that service or copy files to or from the My Passport. Thumbnails of image files are visible when you open a folder, and tapping on a file will open a full-screen version, along with the option to save the file locally on your mobile device. It’s easy to navigate and all image files (RAW and JPEG) on the drive can be easily viewed in nested folders on the My Cloud app. The My Cloud app for smartphones and tablets is also feature-packed. Unfortunately we didn’t have a compatible camera or a wireless transmitter to test this particular feature, but setup instructions are available for both Canon and Nikon users on the My Cloud learning center. Using wireless tethering with a supported camera means shots will automatically be backed up you shoot, with full-resolution JPEGs and RAWs sent to the My Passport Wireless SSD - and WD promises that it won’t affect the camera’s buffer.
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To get support for the latter, you’ll need to own one of the handful of high-end pro DSLRs from Canon or Nikon which have built-in FTP support, or a camera which is compatible with a wireless file transmitter attachment. That’s because most cameras with built-in Wi-Fi are generally designed to work with phones and tablets, and only rarely with dedicated storage drives. There’s also the option to transfer photos wirelessly from your camera - although only a small number of cameras actually support this at present. Once you’ve got the images from your camera’s SD card transferred, you can view them on your smartphone or tablet via the My Cloud app, without needing to go anywhere near a computer. Once all four lights are lit up and have stopped blinking, all your files have been transferred from your SD card.
These blink in sequence, moving from one light to two, three and then four as the job progresses. To indicate how the transfer is progressing, WD’s put the device’s four battery-status lights on double duty. The quickest and simplest way to get those on the drive is to plug your SD card directly to the drive’s built-in reader, then press the transfer button and they’ll be copied across into a dedicated ‘SD Card Imports’ folder. There’s also a wide variety of things you can do with those files once they’re on there.Īt its core, the Wireless SSD offers the travelling photographer a way to backup and browse through photos. The combination of both wired and wireless tech in this drive means there’s a lot of ways to get things onto – or off – its internal storage.