WD has expanded its suite of network attached storage (NAS) solutions with four new products that address the increasing demands for content storage, management, protection and streaming among prosumers, creative professionals and small businesses. Released today are the My Cloud Expert two-bay My Cloud EX2100, and four-bay EX4100. In the My Cloud Business lineup are the two-bay My Cloud DL2100, and four-drive DL-4100.
The new My Cloud Expert Series products include the latest and fastest dual-core Marvell ARMADA 385 and 388 processors for media streaming, and provide up to 24 TB of storage. The included WD Red drives can be configured using multiple RAID options including RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD and spanning modes. Customers can use My Cloud Expert Series products to centralize and back up all of their computers and notebooks with WD SmartWare Pro software for PC users, and with the Apple Time Machine backup software for Mac users.
Additionally, the integrated file server, FTP server, backup server and P2P download server provide advanced data serving options. Customers can also customize their My Cloud Expert series NAS, monitor system health, manage users and energy saving features with the My Cloud dashboard, as well as use a suite of third party apps, including aMule, Icecast, Transmission, DVBlink, SqueezeCenter and more.
The all new My Cloud Business Series solutions is intended for small businesses to centralize and protect their data in the workplace. Both models are powered by the Intel Atom dual core processor, with RAM up to 2GB, and data storage capacity up to 24 TB. Offering AES 256-bit volume encryption and multiple RAID options (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD and spanning modes), the My Cloud Business Series offers small businesses multiple options to secure and protect their data.
Customers can also use their My Cloud Business Series products to back up all of their computers with WD SmartWare Pro software for PC users and Apple Time Machine support for Mac users. My Cloud Business Series products can also backup themselves, either to another My Cloud in a different location or to cloud services such as Amazon S3 and ElephantDrive. Users can also use the one-touch USB 3.0 copy button to automatically copy data from an external USB storage device onto the NAS.
The My Cloud Business Series products feature many business-ready capabilities including iSCSI target and initiator, replication and file synchronization, integrated FTP, WebDAV server, SSH Shell, and Microsoft Active Directory support. Additionally there are enterprise-class redundancies such as dual power supply ports with fail over, dual Gigabit Ethernet and UPS support. The My Cloud Business Series also provides memory expansion up to 6GB, and scalable storage through dual NICs or USB.
Availability
The My Cloud Business Series is currently available now while the My Cloud Expert Series will be available with WD channel partners in March. Both series come with a 3-year limited warranty for the populated models and a 2-year limited warranty for the diskless products.
Pricing is as follows:
- My Cloud EX2100 NAS is $249.99 USD for the diskless unit, $429.99 USD for 4TB, $559.99 USD for 8TB and $749.99 USD for 12TB.
- My Cloud EX4100 NAS is $399.99 USD for the diskless unit, $749.99 USD for 8TB, $1,049.99 USD for 16TB and $1,449.99 USD for 24TB
- My Cloud DL2100 NAS is $349.99 USD for the diskless unit, $529.99 USD for 4TB, $649.99 USD for 8TB and $849.99 USD for 12TB.
- My Cloud DL4100 NAS is $529.99 USD for the diskless unit, $879.99 USD for 8TB, $1,169.99 for 16TB and $1,529.99 for 24TB.
