Western Digital today announced a new addition to its prosumer personal cloud solutions with My Cloud EX2. It is a high-performance two-bay network attached storage (NAS) system. The My Cloud EX2 and My Cloud EX4 products are designed from the ground up for creative professionals and prosumers that need to reliably save, share, back up, stream and manage large amounts of digital data.
My Cloud EX2 includes data serving options including an integrated file server, FTP server, backup server and a P2P download server. Additionally, users can download and run a host of third party apps, including aMule, Icecast, Joomla!, phpBB, phpMyAdmin, Transmission, and SqueezeCenter.
Users of MyCloud EX2 enjoys data management and security features that allows them to select their preferred methods for managing and protecting their movies, photos, music and digital files. Drive management options include RAID 0, RAID 1; JBOD and spanning modes, while data protection options include RAID 1, USB, cloud or LAN/WAN backup. The My Cloud EX2 is shipped with preconfigured in RAID 1.
My Cloud EX2 is available on several capacity options including a diskless enclosure. Storage option starts with 4TB, 6TB or 8TB capacities. A USB 3.0 hard drives to the USB expansion ports on the My Cloud EX2 to instantly expand their storage capacity.
Streaming of videos and photos is possible to connected TVs, media players, gaming consoles and other DLNA/UPnP devices with the included Twonky 7.2 server, DLNA-certified 1.5 media server, and built-in iTunes server.
In January WD launched WD MyCloud and MyCloud EX4. Read our article here.
WD MyCloud EX2 Price and Availability
My Cloud EX2 is now available at select resellers and is distributed by Iontech, Inc. MSRP is PhP 10,990.00 for the diskless My Cloud EX2, PhP 17, 990.00 for 4 TB, PhP 22,990.00 for 6 TB and PhP 28,990 for 8 TB.
