Western Digital My Cloud User Manual - Manual (Page 111)

CONNECTING A USB HARD DRIVE
116 WD MY CLOUD PERSONAL CLOUD STORAGE
USER MANUAL
Connecting a USB Hard Drive
Overview
Connecting A USB Drive
Mapping A USB Drive (Windows Only)
Creating a Shortcut to the USB Drive (Windows only)
Overview
When you attach a USB drive to the WD My Cloud device’s USB 3.0 expansion port, it
becomes a network drive. Now the USB drive has the following capabilities:
 When you connect an external USB drive such as a WD Passport, a memory stick,
or a camera to the WD My Cloud device, you can access it with Windows Explorer
or Mac Finder.
 The USB drive can serve as a target for backups in WD SmartWare, Windows, or
Time Machine.
 You can map the drive as a user share drive (Windows) or an alias (Mac).
 If a WD external drive has been locked, when it is attached to the WD My Cloud
device, it maintains that security and can be unlocked or relocked using the
Dashboard.
 You can attach a powered USB hub to the external USB port and attach up to seven
USB devices to the hub.
Connecting A USB Drive
Connect a USB hard drive to the USB port on the rear of your WD My Cloud device for
additional storage. The USB drive appears as a share on the WD My Cloud dashboard.
(See“Managing Shares” on page 55.)
The WD My Cloud device supports the following formats for externally attached USB drives:
 FAT32
 NTFS (read and write capability)
 HFS+J
 Linux Ext2, Ext3/Ext4
 XFS
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