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What Nas drive will continue to support S1? (after WD has withdrawn support)

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February 9, 2023
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WD’s My Cloud Home has just announced it will no longer support Sonos S1.

I’m furious as mine was suggested by a telephone sales person. It’s over two years old, so presumably out of warranty.

I want to keep using my old Play 5’s.

I just use the nas to play mucic from my library of 250 K songs

It’d be much cheaper to buy say the Seagate 4TB Nas at £84 than pay £700 plus to upgrade my two Play 5’s.

But is it reliable? And are Seagate also likely to dump support for S1?

Or are all companies that make nas likely to go that WD route? And should I just acceot by Play 5’s are obselete?

Many thanks

Peter

PS Other Nas often used by Sonos users are Buffalo Link Station, Fritz! Qnap and Synology. Any thoughts on those?

PPS I do use S2 for my two Roam speaker. But they of course dont link to S1.

And do I understand that gen 1 SL’s wont connect to S2?

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106rallye

You state “WD’s My Cloud Home has just announced it will no longer support Sonos S1.” I could not find a reference to this online. Could you post a link to this announcement? Maybe this will shed some light on what you need to do.

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beynym

World-Class Superstar

I think this is what he's referring to.

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Kumar

Also, I don’t understand what S1 and S2 has to do with all this!

The original SMBv1 protocol has some serious security issues.

Understood. But a follow up: let us say I have a NAS drive that uses this protocol and the drive is used only for hosting music files and local streaming to Sonos. Nothing else.

What I am potentially exposed to in such a case for non Sonos things? The drive is on an Apple Time Machine hosted home WiFi network.

106rallye

If I read this well it means WD Live will not support any external eccess anymore, be it froim Sonos S1, S2 or other? One of the statements could however mean hope:

How can I access my content in My Cloud Home from my computer without WD Discovery?
Users can still access their content remotely using My Cloud Home Web App or the My Cloud mobile app. We have also added SMB local network access since the 8.12 firmware. For more information, please refer to Answer ID 34991: How to Enable Local Network Access to Data on My Cloud Home and ibi Using the Dashboard.

Then only SMBv1 could be a problem.

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rcasey27

Lyricist I

Due to their complete network shutdown which is now over a week old, WD MyCloud posted instructions on how to access files using the local access route. That accomplished, I would like to ask how to connect my SONOS system to the locally accessed library. Any help would be much appreciated.

Airgetlam

This is what worked for my WD:

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/add-your-music-library-to-sonos

worked originally on S1, still works on S2, although I’ve adjusted SMB levels for S2.

Bruce

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