WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra 2-Bay Hotswap Diskless NAS 1.3GHz Dual-Core 1GB RAM

Interface

• Gigabit Ethernet
• Power supply (DC in) x 1
• USB 3.0 expansion port x 2 rear

CPU

• Marvell ARMADA 385 1.3 GHz dual-core

Memory

• 1 GB DDR3

Drive bays

• 2 x 3.5 inch hard drive bays, hot swap capable, tray-less design

Internal hard drives

• WD Red NAS hard drives

Expansion Ports

• 2 USB 3.0 ports

System Requirements

• Windows 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7 operating system
• Mac OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, or Lion operating systems
• DLNA/UPnP devices for streaming
• Router with Internet connection

Supported Web Browsers

• Internet Explorer 10 or higher
• Safari 6 or higher
• Firefox 30 or higher
• Google Chrome 31 or higher 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 up to 9K
• VLAN (802.1Q)
• Link Aggregation and failover for 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• UPnP port forwarding
• LLTD Link Layer Topology Discovery Protocol
• iSCSI
• SSH

Network File Services

• OS Supports
  • Windows XP Home/ Pro/ 64-bit SP3+
  • Windows Vista/ 7/ 8 (All versions)
  • Mac OS X 10.6, Lion, Mountain Lion
• CIFS/SMB for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
• Linux Distributed File System (DFS)
• AFP for Mac OS X
• FTP/SFTP Server
• WebDAV Server
• Microsoft Active Directory support

Backup management

• Remote backups: My Cloud Expert Series to My Cloud Expert Series locally or remotely
• Backup internal files or folders of the device to other files/folders on the NAS or attached USB drive
• WD SmartWare Pro for Windows clients
• Apple Time Machine (10.5.8+) support
• Cloud-based backup services
  • Amazon S3
  • ElephantDrive (http://home.elephantdrive.com/)
• Disk sync management for the attached USB ports

Disk management

• RAID: JBOD, spanning, 0/1
• RAID migration
  • JBOD to RAID 1
• Hot swapping
• Disk roaming
• Array roaming

Security

• Volume Encryption (256 bit AES)

File System

• EXT4 for internal HDD
• Support following formats for externally attached USB drives
  • FAT/FAT32
  • NTFS (read and write capability)
  • HFS+J (case sensitive)
  • Linux EXT2, EXT3, EXT4
• Support for mounting ISO-Image

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 Download Manager

Power Management

• Drive Spin Up/Down (including Attached WD USB drives)
• Automatic power recovery (with UPS)
• Schedule power on/off
• Graceful shutdown on UPS low battery
• FAN Control
• Network UPS
• Wake On LAN

Remote Access

• My Cloud mobile app
• My Cloud.com 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: Max No. of Network Shares: 128
• Max concurrent CIFS connections: 10
• 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)
• Importing groups (CSV Delimited Format)

System Management

• System status: Device Information
  • Capacity usage status for the external storage
  • File category breakdown of how much video, photo, music is stored
• Alert notifications
  • Event UI message
  • UI Alert (with message acknowledgment required)
  • Email notice
  • QuickView pop-up message
  • RED LED status
• Network recycle
  • Support Windows CIFS
  • Support Apple AFP
• System/FTP Log (Syslog Client)
• HTTP/S (Web) Administration Interface (HTTP Server)
• Firmware upgrade
• Configuration backup and restore
• SNMPv2
• System Information
  • CPU percentage
  • RAM usage
  • Network performance in MB/s

Media Streaming

• PLEX media app
• UPnP AV Media server (Twonky)
• DLNA certification
• Support WD TV, WD TV Live, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows 8, connected TVs, Blu-ray players and digital picture frames
• iTunes Server

iSCSI

• iSCSI Target
  • CHAP authentication
  • iSNS (Internet Storage Name Service )
  • Up to 64 iSCSI Targets
• Volume Virtualization
  • Virtual Disk Drive (via iSCSI Initiator)
  • Max number of virtual disk drives supported is eight (8)

Power Supply

• Input voltage: 100V to 240V AC
• Input frequency: 50 to 60 Hz
• Output voltage: 12V DC, up to 4A

Temperature

• Operating Temperature: 0° C to 35° C ( 32° F to 95° F)
• Non-op Temperature: -40° C to 70° C (-40° F to 158° F)

Package Includes

• NAS
• Ethernet cable
• Power supply
• Quick install guide