Western Digital markets their NAS lineup under the ‘Personal Cloud’ category. This is further sub-divided into three markets, the ‘Consumer Series’ (the MyCloud units), ‘Expert Series’ (the EX units) and the ‘Business Series’ (the DL units). At IFA 2015, WD took the opportunity to announce some updates to their NAS units. On the hardware side, there is a refresh of the My Cloud Mirror (2-bay version) with an updated internal platform. On the software front, the next major version of My Cloud OS (v3) with plenty of interesting features is being made available for download.
In the conference call to discuss this announcement, WD presented plenty of interesting facts – 50% market share amongst 1- and 2-bay NAS units in the US and 30% amongst all consumer NAS units in the EMEA regions. Surprisingly, they also indicated that more than 1.6M My Cloud and My Cloud Mirror units have been sold so far (and more than 5M My Cloud App downloads).
