WD Adds Four NAS for Expert and Business Users to My Cloud Line

WD, a Western Digital company, expanded its suite of NAS solutions with four products that address the increasing demands for content storage, management, protection and streaming among prosumers, creative professionals and small businesses.

My Cloud Expert Series includes My Cloud EX2100 (two-bay) and My Cloud EX4100 (four-bay) NAS designed for creative professionals and prosumers that need to save, share, backup, stream and manage large amounts of digital data. Powered by a dual-core Armada processor, these two additions to the Expert Series offer fast R/W speeds for simultaneous, high-performance HD media streaming with up to 24TB of storage capacity ⁽¹⁾.

My Cloud EX4100

My Cloud Business Series includes DL2100 (two-bay) and DL4100 (four-bay) NAS systems built to provide the reliability, security and scalability. Powered by Atom dual-core processors with up to 24TB ⁽²⁾ of storage capacity, the My Cloud Business Series runs on the Linux-based OS.

“As the market leader in the single-bay personal cloud category with our award winning My Cloud platform, as well as in the NAS HDD drive category with our WD Red line, WD understands that customers need more power and more choice in NAS systems,” said Jim Welsh, EVP, content solutions business and WW sales, WD. “We are very excited about our new My Cloud Expert Series and My Cloud Business Series NAS products that offer the performance, ease of use, reliability and My Cloud OS that customers want from WD.“

My Cloud Expert Series
For photographers, videographers, graphic designers and other creative professionals adapting to ever increasing file sizes, from RAW images and 4K video footage, the My Cloud Expert Series products include a dual-core Armada 385 and 388 processors for performance media streaming, provide up to 24TB of storage and the ability to keep files safe, secure and accessible from anywhere. The data management and security features let customers select their preferred methods for managing, sharing and protecting their movies, photos, music and digital files.

The included WD Red drives can be configured using multiple RAID options (model dependent) including RAID-0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD and spanning modes. Customers can use their My Cloud Expert Series products to centralize and backup 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.

My Cloud Expert Series products can serve as a digital entertainment hub, streaming movies and music to any DLNA/UPnP certified multimedia device such as gaming consoles, smart TVs and WD TV Live media players. The Twonky, DLNA-certified media server and iTunes server make for streaming of large movie and music libraries.

Additionally, the integrated file server, FTP server, backup server and P2P download server provide advanced data serving options. Customers can customize their My Cloud Expert series NAS, monitor system health, manage users and energy saving features with the dashboard, as well as use a suite of third party apps, including aMule, Icecast, Transmission, DVBlink, SqueezeCenter and more.

My Cloud Business Series
The all My Cloud Business Series solutions allow small businesses to centralize and protect their data in the workplace and provide employees with secure access to critical data from anywhere. Powered by the latest Atom dual core processor, with RAM up to 2GB, and storage capacity up to 24TB.

Secure access, protection and backup of data for small businesses is critical. 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 backup 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 backup themselves, either to another My Cloud in a different location or to cloud services such as Amazon S3 and ElephantDrive. Users can 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 redundancies such as dual power supply ports with fail over, dual GbE and UPS support. The My Cloud Business Series provides memory expansion up to 6GB, and scalable storage through dual NICs or USB.

My Cloud Business Series products are available in several capacity options. The My cloud DL2100 (two-bay) is available diskless or with 4, 8 or 12TB capacities. The My Cloud DL4100 (four-bay) is available diskless or with 8, 16 or 24TB capacities. With Easy-Slide-Drive technology, My Cloud Business Series customers can install or hot-swap drives ins, without the need for a screwdriver, toolkit or trays.

Anywhere Access
My Cloud mobile app provides anywhere access to the entire My Cloud product family. With the mobile app users can view photos, stream video and share, save and manage files from anywhere on their iOS and Android devices. The mobile app makes file sharing and collaborating simple, allowing customers to email files, share files as a link and print and open files with third party apps. The WD app integrates major public cloud services so that customers can easily transfer files from their Dropbox, OneDrive and Google Drive public cloud accounts⁽³⁾.

The My Cloud Expert Series and My Cloud Business Series products will be available through selected WD channel partners including retailers in store and online, e-tailers, distributors, authorized resellers and at the wdstore.com.

The My Cloud Business Series is available online and the My Cloud Expert Series and My Cloud Business Series will be available with channel partners in March.

The My Cloud Expert Series and Business Series products come with a 3-year limited warranty for the populated products and a 2-year limited warranty for the diskless products. Terms and conditions of WD’s limited warranty.

Pricing:

My Cloud EX2100 MSRP
My Cloud EX4100 MSRP
My Cloud DL2100 MSRP
My Cloud DL4100 MSRP

Compatibility:

My Cloud Expert Series and My Cloud Business Series are compatible with Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, as well as DLNA/UPnP enabled devices.

External storage devices are part of a user’s backup ecosystem. WD recommends users maintain multiple copies of their most important data on different online and offline platforms.
Apps, services, and other features are subject to change based on your location, software version, device model, and third party service providers.

⁽¹⁾ My Cloud DL2100 and My Cloud EX2100 systems are shipped in RAID-1 configuration, which leaves 50% of the system capacity available for storage. My Cloud DL4100 and My Cloud EX4100 systems are shipped in RAID-5 or RAID-1 configurations depending on number of HDDs, which leaves three quarters in a 4 HDD system and 50% in a two HDD system of the system capacity available for storage. Systems are configurable to RAID-0, JBOD or spanned, which leaves all system capacity available for storage. Up to 0.1TB may be reserved for non-user accessible storage.
⁽²⁾ My Cloud DL2100 and My Cloud EX2100 systems are shipped in RAID-1 configuration, which leaves 50% of the system capacity available for storage. My Cloud DL4100 and My Cloud EX4100 systems are shipped in RAID-5 or RAID-1 configurations depending on number of HDDs, which leaves three quarters in a 4 HDD system and 50% in a two HDD system of the system capacity available for storage. Systems are configurable to RAID-0, JBOD or spanned, which leaves all system capacity available for storage. Up to 0.1TB may be reserved for non-user accessible storage.
⁽³) Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive account required. Cloud services may be changed, terminated or interrupted at any time and may vary by country.