Choose a populated system that works out of the box, featuring WD Red hard drives. Or, build your own NAS with our diskless enclosure and add up to two drives of your choice.
Effortlessly install drives or hot swap with ease. WDs powerful dashboard means you are always in control.
Extensive data protection.
Manage your data with RAID 0, 1; JBOD and spanning drive modes. Then, protect it with RAID 1, USB, cloud or LAN/WAN backup options.
Features
Your options are endless
Choose a populated system that works right out of the box with integrated WD Red NAS hard drives, pre-set in RAID 1 mode for ultimate protection for your data from the start. Or, choose the diskless enclosure to build your NAS with the drives of your choice.
High-performance NAS
512 MB memory and 1.2 GHz processor deliver reliable, fast performance for your home or small office.
Drive management
Control your data with multiple drive management options including RAID 0, 1; JBOD and spanning modes.
Data protection at its best
You’re armed with multiple options to secure your data from loss. Choose from RAID 1, USB, cloud or LAN/WAN backup depending upon your data security needs.
Easy to manage
A powerful dashboard means your system is always under your control. Monitor your drives, manage users and utilize energy-saving features. Email and mobile alerts keep you informed on My Cloud EX2 status.
Stream media to your connected devices
Stream videos and photos to connected TVs, media players, gaming consoles and other DLNA/UPnP devices. Features a Twonky 7.2 DLNA-certified 1.5 media server. And with My Cloud EX2 iTunes support, you can easily stream your music collection.
Advanced serving options
Integrated file server, FTP server, backup server and P2P torrent download server.
Expand your capacity
Simply attach a compatible USB hard drive directly to one of the two USB 3.0 expansion ports on My Cloud EX2 and instantly expand your storage capacity.
Advanced features
A full suite of advanced features to power your home or office including: iSCSI target, full-featured FTP services, jumbo frame support, iPv4/iPv6 ready, UPS support (USB and network), real-time resource monitor, volume encryption with boot-up password, SNMP and virtual volumes.
Award-winning mobile and desktop apps
With WD's My Cloud apps, you can upload, access and share your documents from anywhere. Conveniently transfer files from your public cloud accounts to My Cloud EX2 using the mobile app.
Advanced apps to customize your NAS
Featuring industry-leading apps, including aMule, Transmission, Icecast, Joomla!, phpBB, phpMyAdmin, SqueezeCenter, and more.
Back up, your way
Protect your data via remote backup to another My Cloud EX2 or My Cloud EX4, integrated cloud backup or local LAN/WAN backup. Enjoy peace of mind with WD SmartWare Pro for PC users, and Apple Time Machine compatibility for Mac users.
Integrated energy-saving features
Save energy with disk spin-down and scheduled power on/off.
Your own personal cloud
Unlike public clouds, My Cloud EX2 allows you to keep all your content in one safe place on your home or office network instead of a remote server. No mysterious location of your data. No monthly fees. No limits. Just blazing-fast performance for your high-speed digital life.
Advanced Apps
Get anywhere access and the flexibility to customize your NAS with WDs mobile, desktop and third-party integrated apps.
My Cloud mobile app
You are always connected to your personal cloud. Save valuable space on your mobile devices with easy photo and video uploads directly to your personal cloud, then securely access and share your memories from anywhere.
Have a public cloud account?
The My Cloud mobile app also allows you to easily transfer files between your personal cloud, Dropbox and other public cloud accounts.
My Cloud desktop app
This app keeps your PC or Mac connected to your personal cloud, no matter where you are. From the application, you can easily drag and drop to transfer, manage your files and share links to specific files or folders via email.
Third-party integrated apps
aMule
Free peer-to-peer file sharing application that works with the EDonkey network and the Kad network. The app provides search capability for finding desired P2P files and has a full-featured P2P server/client Web UI interface.
phpBB
One of the leading bulletin board solutions, including powerful permission systems, private messaging, search functions, a customizable template and language system, as well as support for multiple databases.
SqueezeCenter
Streaming audio server that supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, Ogg, ACC, as well as transcoding. Stream to both hardware and software receivers as well as any media player capable of playing MP3 streams.
Dashboard cloud access
Your system is always under your control. Manage My Cloud EX2 from anywhere with WD's powerful dashboard. Monitor your drives, manage users and utilize energy-saving features. Email and mobile alerts keep you informed on My Cloud EX2 status.
Icecast
Open source media streaming app that can be modified to suit your individual needs.
Joomla!
Content Management System (CMS) that facilitates easy management of your website text, photos, videos, music and documents.
phpMyAdmin
Handles the administration of MySQL via web with ability to create and drop databases; create, drop, or alter tables; delete, edit or add fields; execute any SQL statement and manage keys on fields.
Transmission
Transmission is one of the best choices for a BitTorrent client, being both extremely lightweight and feature-packed.
Transmission's interface is easy to use, yet very powerful, especially when it comes to managing bandwidth.
