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The EX2100 is a two-bay NAS, with two hot-swap 3.5in drive bays at the front of the unit, pre-filled with two 4TB hard disks. The black metal enclosure is utilitarian at best, although the glossy front panel and LED power button add a little design flair...
Excellent file transfer speeds and no-hassle setup, but WD still lags behind Synology and QNAP when it comes to features...
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You probably know Western Digital best for its long history manufacturing hard drives, but the company also make NAS units. The My Cloud series is Western Digital's attempt to take on products from Synology, QNAP, Thecus and others. There are 4 models i...
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micromart.co.uk Updated: 2015-09-11 17:13:55
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N o longer wholly satisfied with just making NAS-optimised hard drives, Western Digital has also been developing its own NAS boxes. Last year it produced a range of equipment that included the single sealed unit devices like the My Cloud Personal Cloud St...
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WD's My Cloud EX2100 8TB is a snappy NAS drive brimming with useful features that's a real contender to its Synology rivals. We review the WD My Cloud EX2100 8TB NAS drive. See all network-attached storage reviews. Disk storage giant WD has expanded its...
The WD My Cloud EX2100 has performance issues with Mac OS X, but otherwise is a snappy NAS drive brimming with useful features. At around £200 unpopulated it's close in price and performance to the Synology DS214. It's perhaps testament to the progress WD...
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The chassis offers two USB 3 ports one at the front, one at the rear, as well as a onetouch copy button that allows you to dump the contents of a USB stick straight to the NAS. There are also two Gigabit Ethernet ports; these allow you to daisychain...
The EX2100 lacks many of the features that are offered even by cheaper Synology enclosures, although the basics are there such as your typical media servers, remote access and cloud storage. In addition, we gleaned from WD that its march in taking the fig...
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What is the WD My Cloud EX2100? The WD My Cloud EX2100 is a mid-range NAS drive aimed at the power home user or small business. With space for two 6TB drives, it can be used to provide fast network access for up to 12TB of storage. It can be bought either...
WD My Cloud EX2100 – Performance For our review we received an EX2100 pre-configured with two 4TB WD Red drives, which are WD's NAS-specific drives that include particular optimisations for low-power usage and error-recovery in a NAS environment. The EX21...
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This two-bay NAS can be purchased either diskless so you can install your own drives or with as much as 12TB of capacity. That is plenty of capacity for several family members or almost every small to medium business we've ever worked with.Our test unit w...
USB disk copy, performance...
cloud sharing a little fiddly to set up...
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The MyCloud EX2100 is WD's purpose-built home server that sort of acts as a cloud network when you're accessing it remotely. It's a small device about the size of a two-slice toaster, but it weighs a seriously heavy 3.5kg when loaded with two hard drives...
User-friendly web interface, Quiet, cool and efficient, Hot-swap bays allow you to quickly recover from drive failures...
Expensive...
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We reviewed the WD My Cloud Mirror Gen 2 before and was mightily impressed. It was a secure and convenient way to manage backups and storage of personal files. Now, we take a look at the WD My Cloud EX2100 and see if it holds up as a better NAS option.The...
The WD My Cloud EX2100 is great for home and small business looking for a reliable and convenient cloud storage solution. It is a solid NAS which performs well, and can rapidly transfer files between devices. Setup is easy, and with the WD My Cloud app, y...
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I remembered there was a time when our in-house videographer once exclaimed suddenly in the peaceful office, as she isn't able to access the external Thunderbolt hard drive connected to our video editing Mac Pro, the entire office was devastated as there...
Even though the product belongs to the WD's Expert series of NAS, you don't need to be an expert to be able to use it, from hardware to software, the My Cloud EX2100 simplifies everything in a usability and it is definitely a no-brainer if you are thinkin...
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Cloud storage has become a trend for anyone who requires access to their files on-the-go all the time and especially in the creative workspace, your portfolio requires a huge amount of storage and backup features to safeguard your precious work, and this...
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Backup devices are essential to content creators like photographers, videographers, digital artists, and many others, safe-keeping of data becomes an integral part of the workflow. With the advancement of technologies around us, even the average individua...
The WD My Cloud EX2100 NAS is certainly worth considering, especially with the wealth of features available.Below are the MSRP for the various configuration available.– RM 1,099 for diskless unit.– RM 1,919 for 4TB– RM 2,529 for 8TB– RM 3,289 for...
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Some NAS drives specialize in letting you download and upload files within your internal network, but don't really have a great way for you to access these files from afar. Others have a way for doing it, but it can be a proper pain in the derriere to use...
Excellent design, Speedy performance, Easy cloud accessibility...
Limited selection of thirdparty apps, Simple UI is sometimes too simple, Loud when powering up...
Western Digital presents a speedy, simple way for accessing your data remotely. A few quirks of its extraordinarily simple UI are sticking points (as is the noise when you turn it on), but they're not deal-breakers. Read More…...
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The WD My Cloud EX2100 is a new prosumer-oriented NAS drive from WD that continues the company's adventures in the realm of "personal cloud" storage. These drives are aimed directly at people who use Cloud storage such as Dropbox, Google Drive, Box.com, a...
Simple, intuitive setup and management, Powerful prosumer features, RAID1 capabilities for better reliability, Great performance, Affordable...
UI not always totally friendly, No redundant power supply ports...
WD My Cloud EX2100Like the My Cloud drives that came before it, the EX2100 is simple to setup--you just need to plug it in and it's practically ready to go. The files are available from any PC, SmartPhone or tablet, and it is really handy having terabytes...
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Network attached storage devices have gone a long way since their early days so whereas even just 10 years they featured low-end single core CPUs and could just be used to house and share your crucial data on the local network today they have enough firep...
Build Quality, Very Good Performance, Trayless Design, User Friendly GUI, Power Consumption, PreConfigured (Factory Ready), Price (For Some)...
No Surveillance Feature (Extra), No HDMI Output, Not Compatible With 2.5” Drives...
I didn't hide my disappointment when we tested the My Cloud EX4 model a while back since it was indeed outdated compared to what we've been testing for the past 2 years and thus couldn't compete with most in performance and to a large part features (it wa...
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