(Opens in a new window) Read Our Western Digital My Cloud Mirror Gen 2 (4TB) Review A single LED on the front panel lets you know its power status, or when someone is accessing the storage. It has an AC adapter jack, a Gigabit Ethernet port in the back, along with a single USB 3.0 port for backing up the personal cloud to USB devices like external hard drives and flash drives. Its glossy white polycarbonate body measures 7.5 by 2.4 by 5.6 inches (HWD), so it will fit fine next to your home network router.
The Apollo ($145.07 at Amazon UK) (Opens in a new window) looks like a standard desktop external hard drive. Think of it as the personal network storage for those who don't want to muck about with complicated share rules and server settings. You can also use it to back up and share files on your Macs or PCs, but it's very simplistic compared with a full-service NAS like our top pick, the Western Digital My Cloud Mirror Gen 2 ($145.07 at Amazon UK) (Opens in a new window). It is easy to set up on your home network, where it will automatically back up all the snapshots and videos you take on your smartphone. The Promise Apollo ($299) is presented as a personal cloud storage solution, but physically it's a simplified network-attached storage (NAS) device.
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