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WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra (2 x 3 TB, WD Red)
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WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra

2 x 3 TB, WD Red


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172 reviews

  • f.kramer

    3 years ago

    Poor quality

    Have bought 2 devices within ca.4 years, life span is only ca. 2 years. Will switch to another product.

    This review was created for a different variant: My Cloud EX2 Ultra (2 x 4 TB, WD Red)

  • jmdegex

    7 years ago
    purchased this product

    I can only recommend this device to anyone looking for a home NAS at a good price

    Excellent compromise for a home NAS. Not too expensive, but does everything you could possibly need. Personal cloud limited only by the capacity of the drive. WD Red drives are very good

    This review was created for a different variant: My Cloud EX2 Ultra (2 x 6 TB, WD Red)

  • christophberger

    1 year ago
    purchased this product

    Disappointed

    I bought the product based on many good reviews and recommendations on Mac websites. After practical experience I am disappointed with the MyCloud OS and the many problems under MacOS.
    Changing the device name led to problems
    with admin interface (apparently known problem in WD forum). Only after several reboots did the admin interface work correctly again.
    Creating users and shares does not correspond to the instructions, not even to the latest online version. Access rights can only be distributed for entire shares, not for folder structures within them, i.e. tiered access rights require several shares mounted as individual drives. Group rights do not work as expected (problem known in the WD forum).
    Then transfer of two backup folders from another drive (134 GB, 349k files and 61 GB, 8.8k files). Despite continuous gigabit connection about 1 day, which is slow compared to my other network disks. Also "get info" for such folders takes much longer than for other drives.
    Later I wanted to delete one of these folders and copy it again. Deletion did not work from the Mac Finder: aborted with error message "Folder xy is in use" (known problem in the WD forum). Deleting via the web interface (WD forum recommendation) requires that you first activate cloud sharing (which I didn't really want for backup folders). Folder not visible in the web interface at first, with a message that it was still being indexed (for what felt like an eternity); later it was possible to delete this way. Recopying did not work because of an incomprehensible error message "item xy already exists". Attempt to do this via the web interface failed because not all folders are displayed there (this time without a message about indexing). I am deeply frustrated that I am spending hours on an 0815 task because of immature / faulty device software. Rebooting seems to help each time, but that shouldn't really be necessary.
     

    Pro

    • Price/performance ratio
    • Basic set-up simple

    Contra

    • does not work reliably under MacOS
    • WD software faulty
    • Various limitations of the web interfaces
    • slow
    • Instructions not up to date, not even online

    This review was created for a different variant: My Cloud EX2 Ultra (2 x 6 TB, WD Red)

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