WD My Cloud EX2 2-Bay NAS (diskless)
Technical Specifications
Interface Gigabit Ethernet
Power supply (DC in)
USB 3.0 expansion port x 2
Drive bays 2 x 3.5 inch hard drive bays, hot swap capable, trayless design
Internal hard drives WD Red NAS hard drives (Included in 4 TB, 6 TB and 8 TB populated systems only)
Processor 1.2 GHz
Memory 512 MB DDR3
Fan 35 mm x 35 mm, 9500 RPM
System requirements Windows® 8.1 or earlier, Windows 7, Windows Vista® or Windows XP (SP 3) operating systems
Mac OS® X Mavericks, Mountain Lion™, Lion™ or Snow Leopard® operating systems
DLNA/UPnP devices for streaming
Router with Internet connection
Supported web browsers Internet Explorer® 8 or higher
Safari® 6 or higher
Firefox® 21 or higher
Google Chrome™ 27 and later on supported Windows and Mac OS platforms
Network protocols DHCP client or static IP
NTP client
Dynamic DNS (DDNS)
Apple Bonjour® and Windows Rally™
Jumbo frame support
VLAN (802.1Q)
UPnP port forwarding
iPv4/iPv6
iSCSI
SSH
Physical Features
Reset
button
Ethernet port
Power LED
Dual USB 3.0
ports
Technical Specifications
Physical dimensions Height: 6.75 in (171.45 mm)
Length: 3.9 in (99.06 mm)
Width: 6.1 in (154.94 mm)
Weight 0 TB: 1.8 lbs (0.8 kg)
4 TB: 3.4 lbs (1.6 kg)
6 TB: 4.6 lbs (2.1 kg)
8 TB: 5.0 lbs (2.3 kg)
Drive LEDs
Hot swappable drives via
trayless design
Kensington®
security slot
Power port
Network file services OS Supports:
• Windows XP Home/ Pro (SP 3)
• Windows Vista/7/8 (all versions)
• Mac OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion and Snow Leopard
CIFS/SMB for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
NFSv3 for Linux and UNIX
AFP for Mac OS X
Microsoft® Distributed File System (DFS)
WebDAV Server
Security Active directory support for Windows server 2003/ 2008/ 2012
Volume encryption (256 bit AES)
File system EXT4 for internal HDD
Supports the following formats for externally attached USB drives
• FAT/FAT32
• NTFS (read and write capability)
• HFS+J (case sensitive)
• Linux EXT2, EXT3, EXT4
FTP server Support port setting
Set port range of passive FTP
Option to report external IP in PASV mode
Client language selection
Anonymous FTP
Secure FTP support
Support File eXchange Protocol (FXP)
FTP bandwidth restriction (upstream/downstream)
IP address block (block access from undesired IP address)
Download management HTTP downloads from a URL to a user specified folder on the NAS
FTP downloads of files or folders from an FTP server to another files/folders on the NAS
P2P torrent download manager
Disk management RAID 0/1; JBOD; spanning
RAID migration:
• JBOD to RAID 1
Hot swapping (RAID 1)
Disk roaming
Array roaming
Power management Drive spin-up/down (including attached WD USB drives)
Automatic power recovery
Scheduled power on/off
Graceful shutdown on UPS low battery
Fan control
Network UPS
Wake On LAN
Remote access My Cloud and WD Photos™ mobile apps
My Cloud desktop app
Web access
User/Group management Max no. of users: 512 for Samba, 800 for ADS
Max no. of user groups: 64 for Samba, 200 for ADS
Max no. of network shares:128
Supports up to 10 concurrent CIFS connections
User/group assignment for network sharing/FTP
Quotas for groups or users
Assignment of users to multiple groups
Batch assignment of users to groups
Batch user creation
Importing users (CSV delimited format)
Backup management Remote backups: Backup to a My Cloud EX2 or My Cloud EX4 locally or remotely
Apple Time Machine support
Backup internal files or folders of the device to other files/folders on the NAS