We create and consume far more content today than ever before. We have these huge music libraries to go with the thousands of high-resolution photos that we keep taking. It’s important to have a backup of all this treasured data, but at the same time, you don’t want to feel restricted with where you can access those pictures,, movies and music. And that’s where a product like the Western Digital WD My Cloud can come into the picture.

Many of us already know Western Digital as a trusted brand for hard drives and storage solutions, but the WD My Cloud goes further by effectively letting you own and control your own personal cloud. It may look like one of their other external hard drives, but the WD My Cloud is so much more than that. It can supplement or even replace public cloud services like Google Drive, Skydrive and Dropbox.