Testseek.co.uk have collected 69 expert reviews of the Western Digital My Cloud EX2 USB3 and the average rating is 76%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Western Digital My Cloud EX2 USB3.
March 2014
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The editors liked
RAID1 protection out of the box
Low power consumption
Stylish design
Easy to set up and manage
Cost effective
Remote access from anywhere in the world
Near-silent operation
The WD My Cloud EX2 is speedy
Easy to use and affordable. The server's mobile-enabled personal cloud feature is a bonus for frequent travelers
Smart
Minimalist design
Intuitive setup
Fairly fast
Good value when bought pre-populated
The editors didn't like
Local network performance not as high as purpose-built solutions
The mobile app supports a limited number of file formats for playback
Has no search function
And doesn't allow you to sort by content type. As a dual-bay server
Its protected storage capacity is limited at 4TB for now
Terrific user interface, Easy to access and swap drives, Strong set of software features
Slow performer, especially with small files, Can't automatically sync files between one client and two My Cloud EX2 drives
The My Cloud EX2's professional feature set, marvelous Web interface, and remote access capabilities make network-attached storage as easy as can be. But this NAS is a slow performer....
WD My Cloud EX2Like the original My Cloud, the EX2 is indeed (as WD claims) quite simple to set up and manage. Yes, it's more complex than a typical external USB storage solution, but this device is more than just hard drive space. It offers RAID capabili...
Very easy to set up, Good price for its class, Great for the home with its full-featured suite of media center apps
Performance lags other 2-bay NASs
Like its brethren, the WD My Cloud EX2 is very easy to use, and with this simplicity--as well as its very affordable price--it holds an advantage over other similar NAS solutions. Getting the EX2 up and running on your network will only take a few min...
Clean industrial design. Easy to set up. Offers simple remote access configuration via the My Cloud service. Excellent read speeds.
Average write speeds. Plastic handle to pull drives out of bay is flimsy and easy to break. Hard drives hot to the touch after several hours of system uptime
Western Digital's EX2 has the same interface and many of the good qualities of other products in its My Cloud portfolio. Yet the EX2 showed a few troubling issues in testing that makes us hesitate to give it a strong recommendation....
Easy to setup and manage, Accessible from anywhere using desktop and mobile apps, Two tool-less, hot-swap drive bays, Supports RAID 0, 1, JBOD and Spanning modes, Integrated file, FTP, backup and P2P download servers, Supports USB, LAN/WAN and cloud backu
USB 3.0 & Gigabit ports, Easy remote access without port forwarding, 10 licenses for Smartware Pro backup software, Apple Time Machine backup
Can't schedule attached backups, No logging, Lower read performance vs. other similar class products
Even though the My Cloud EX2 uses slightly beefed up hardware, the performance results don't really show too much of a difference compared to the EX4. The EX2 does have a slight edge over the EX4 on USB 3.0 backup and on iSCSI, but those aren't really the...
When it comes to power consumption the WD My Cloud EX2 4TB isn't too bad. We found that it uses around 5 Watts at when power saver mode is enabled. When the drives come out of their low power state they spike up to ~30 Watts during the few seconds it take...
The Western Digital My Cloud EX2 is a 2-bay NAS, and most users are going to use it in a RAID-1 configuration. Hence, we performed all our expansion / rebuild testing as well as power consumption evaluation with the unit configured in RAID-1. The disks us...
Compact, efficient, silent design, Excellent network throughput, Great out of the box / setup experience
Relatively low write speeds to externally connected USB devices, exFAT not supported on USB devices
The Western Digital EX2 fills an important gap in home network storage devices. RAID adds much needed redundancy, and Western Digital's My Cloud suite lets you get to that redundantly stored data from just about anywhere - even away from home. Speeds were...
