Western Digital (WD) has grown its peripheral My Cloud - network attached storage (NAS) external hard drives with a simple user interface designed to work with mobile devices and desktop. The company has launched two new bays and four-bay release in the series My Cloud experts, made to the public and other users of power who work with lots of data, such as photographers, video artists and creative professionals.
Unlike consumer versions, the EX2100 My Cloud (two bays) and My Cloud EX4100 (four bays) Expert readers are designed to be beasts of high-performance fee. They use dual-core processors and support Marvell Armada read / write speeds that allow multiple HD media streams, for example. Depending on the configuration, these units can provide up to 24 TB of storage.
If you are a photographer who shoots uncompressed RAW files, a videographer working in 4K, a graphic designer, or someone who works with many large files and important, and needs to access both locally and distance, expert readers are for you. With two or four hard drive bays, they can be configured as high-capacity storage or less hard with redundancy capabilities (backup). The USB ports also support instant file transfers when connecting a digital camera.
WD SmartWare addition Pro backup software for Windows, the drives work natively with Apple's Time Machine for Mac OS X. It can also function as FTP servers if you choose not to use My Cloud Mobile App WD (iOS and Android) and desktop web interface.
Or maybe you're an avid media. Readers can complete your home entertainment system as a media server. They support DLNA / UPnP server, Twonky and iTunes.
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Readers WD My Cloud OS (Linux-based) pre-installed, and after you plug in and create a new admin login / password, are ready to go when you take them out of the box. The dashboard My Cloud, which allows you to access via a web browser shows the state, such as energy use, health system, and other activities. For advanced users, you can also change the settings. From our experience with consumer versions of WD using the same interface, it is easy to use. The mobile application allows you to access content from anywhere with an Internet connection (as long as your drives are connected to a network with Internet access), and can synchronize with other cloud services (Dropbox, a disc, Google Drive) for file transfers.
Available now through the online store of WD and in March at select retailers, the EX2100 a list price of $ 250 (not players), $ 430 (4TB), $ 560 (8TB) and $ 750 ( 12 TB). The EX4100 will cost $ 400 (not players), $ 760 (8TB) $ 1.050 (16 TB) and $ 1,500 (24 TB).
In related news, WD also announced two new two-bay models and four-bay my cloud in business series. They are designed for small businesses with employees from 25 to 100 people (the four-bay version can theoretically support up to 500 employees, but it is not an ideal configuration). These discs are similar to the series of experts, unless they are designed to support many users at once and have the file encryption, backup and other security measures to protect sensitive files. The company drives use Intel Atom dual-core processor with 2GB of RAM (expandable to 6GB) for additional horses. They also support other IT protocols such as iSCSI target and initiator, replication and synchronization of files, integrated FTP, WebDAV server, SSH Shell, and Microsoft Active Directory. These players can also automatically save to another NAS or cloud services such as Amazon S3 disk (USB 3.0 also supports backup button connected to another player). Storage is expandable with dual Gigabit Ethernet and USB and provides two power supplies (in case power goes out, you can switch to an uninterruptible power supply).