RAM | 2 GB |
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Hard Drive | Desktop |
Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 3 |
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WD 4TB Diskless My Cloud EX4100 Expert Series 4-Bay Network Attached Storage - NAS - WDBWZE0000NBK-NESN
Brand | Western Digital |
Color | Black |
Product Dimensions | 9.13"D x 7.56"W x 6.69"H |
Size | Diskless |
Compatible Devices | PC; Mac |
About this item
- Centralized storage with anytime, anywhere access
- Integrated 1.6 GHz Marvell armadaARMADA 388 dual-core processor and 2GB DDR3 Memory
- Twonky DLNA-certified media server and iTunes support
- RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 or JBOD and spanning
- Integrated backup software for PC users and Time Machine support for Mac users
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Save all your valuable photos, videos, music and files on this ready-to-go, high-performance NAS solution for secure access to them anytime, from anywhere. Protect your content with multiple backup options, customize your NAS with a full suite of apps and enjoy peace of mind knowing that we've put our best in it, so you can put your best on it.
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User interface | 3.3 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.7 | 4.8 |
Tech Support | 2.6 | 3.4 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Storage Capacity | 4.1 | — | 4.2 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.7 |
Easy to use | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 3.8 | — | — |
Value for money | — | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 4.4 | — |
Sold By | — | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | Amazon.com |
size | Diskless | NAS | 4 Bay | 4 Bay | DS223 | DS224+ |
hardware interface | ethernet | usb, usb c | ethernet | usb | — | esata, pci, solid state drive |
hard disk size | 0 TB | 0 GB | 4 TB | — | — | — |
core count | 2 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
memory capacity | 2 GB | 64 GB | 4 GB | — | — | — |
compatible devices | PC; Mac | Desktop | — | — | Desktop, Laptop, Server, Smart Phone | Laptop, Smart Phone, Desktop |
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Technical Details
Brand | Western Digital |
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Series | MY CLOUD BUSINESS SERIES 8TB DRIVES |
Item model number | WDBWZE0000NBK-NESN |
Hardware Platform | PC, Mac |
Operating System | PC; Mac |
Item Weight | 7.52 pounds |
Product Dimensions | 9.13 x 7.56 x 6.69 inches |
Item Dimensions LxWxH | 9.13 x 7.56 x 6.69 inches |
Color | Black |
Number of Processors | 2 |
Computer Memory Type | DDR3 SDRAM |
Hard Drive Interface | Raid |
Voltage | 19 Volts |
Manufacturer | Western Digital Technologies, Inc. |
ASIN | B00TB8XMR0 |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
Date First Available | February 27, 2015 |
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Customer Reviews |
4.1 out of 5 stars |
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Best Sellers Rank | #137 in Network Attached Storage (NAS) Devices |
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Built-in reliability
Populated with ultra-reliable WD Red NAS drives purposely built to thrive in 24x7 NAS environments.
Ready-to-go NAS for your high-performance life
Save all your valuable photos, videos, music and files on this ready-to-go, high-performance NAS solution for secure access to them anytime, from anywhere. Protect your content with multiple backup options, customize your NAS with a full suite of apps and enjoy peace of mind knowing that we’ve put our best in it, so you can put your best on it.
- Incredibly fast transfer rates
- Smooth HD streaming
- Fully integrated, ultra-reliable WD Red NAS drives
- Comprehensive data protection and security
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Faster speed, better streamingPowerful Marvell ARMADA 388 1.6 GHz dual-core processor and 2 GB DDR3 memory gives you ultra-fast transfer speeds of 114 MB/s upload and 108 MB/s download for high-performance media streaming and file transfers. |
Safeguard your irreplaceable contentArmed with multiple RAID options, you have the power to customize the system with the configuration that works best for you. Choose RAID 0 for enhanced system performance; RAID 1 for mirrored data protection; RAID 5 for data protection and best capacity; or RAID 10 for fast performance and ultimate data reliability. Multiple backup options keep content from all your PC and Mac computers safe. |
Sync content across all your computersUse WD Sync to automatically synchronize media and files across all your computers and your My Cloud device, keeping your favorite content always up to date and accessible from all your devices. |
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Simple, collaborative sharingCreate one efficient location for you, your family and friends to save and share all your important content. Your most important files will be stored and shared, at full resolution, so nobody misses a thing. |
Stream your media files with PlexThe Plex Media Server keeps all your photos, videos and music beautifully organized and prepared for streaming to your PC, mobile device, game console, or other certified media player. Enrich your media with plot summaries, posters, album covers and enjoy it from home or on the go. |
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Customers like the quality and storage space of the system cabinet. For example, they say it's a great little NAS for the home and office. That said, some complain about the connectivity issues. They say it keeps dropping the network connection and that it goes missing from every point of connection. Customers also dislike the support and stability of the product. Opinions are mixed on performance, ease of use, and speed.
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Customers like the quality of the system cabinet. They mention it's a great little NAS for the home or SMB, and a good product for home office. Some functions are sloppy and disappointing, but overall, customers are satisfied with the product's quality.
"This is a great storage device with considerable office environment options...." Read more
"Perfect for a home nas. Using 4X Seagate 8TB archive drives without any problem." Read more
"...comes with all the complications described above with no persistence of these changes...." Read more
"Great little NAS for the home or SMB... but get the 4 bay it is worth it!..." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the storage space provided by the system cabinet. They mention that it is a great storage device with considerable office environment options, it has room for 4 drives, and has many RAID modes. Customers also appreciate the safe file storage and the expansion capabilities of the unit.
"This is a powerful, easy to use NAS device with room for 4 drives. Many RAID modes are available...." Read more
"...This unit has much more expansion capabilities than my Central did. My only complaint so far is that it seems a bit slow at transferring data...." Read more
"Pros: Out of the box personal cloud and RAID. Supports up to 32 TB of disks...." Read more
"This is a great storage device with considerable office environment options...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the performance of the system cabinet. Some mention that it performs nicely, while others say that it's unreliable and has poor functionality.
"...Quiet after initial formatting and pairing4) Plays nice with Mad OSX Ventura5) Remote access is flawless---Cons..." Read more
"...The device works great for streaming native movie files to the Xbox One and my VLC app. I also use it's iOS app to backup photos instead of iCloud...." Read more
"...This NAS is useless. Network performance is poor but acceptable for a Prosumer device. The local media copy is horrible...." Read more
"...For Plex users: This device does decently with direct stream...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the ease of use of the system cabinet. Some mention that it's easy to set up and use, with clear instructions. They say that the control panel is intuitive and that it is easy to assign users to groups. However, others say that it was very difficult to set it up and that the documentation was hard to understand.
"...Once you find it, control panel is mostly intuitive.3) Quiet after initial formatting and pairing..." Read more
"...It does come with a very easy to understand OS with a web login, and also mobile apps, which leads me to the next reason I liked the EX4100...." Read more
"...Unfortunately, the documentation spends too much time explaining what I would call "normal" stuff, and only brief mentions of things like..." Read more
"Setup was easy and the instructions were clear. Had everything going within 1hr or so...." Read more
Customers are mixed about the speed of the system cabinet. Some mention it's amazing, fast, and easy to use, while others say that it seems a bit slow at transferring data, not fast enough, and the network performance is poor. It's not inexpensive and a time drag as rebuilding can take a day or more. Customers also mention that the write performance is very poor and the transfer speed is 6.5GB per HOUR, which is unacceptable for a quick device.
"...Anyway after getting the system set up I found the write performance to be very poor. Using AFP I was getting 34MBps using SMB I getting 44MBps...." Read more
"...WD got these right. Never had any problems. Nice and fast. I use two because when these stop working it will likely be many years from now...." Read more
"...Throw on top of that the horribly slow parity checking, the one time I would expect to see the processor and available RAM consumed, it wasn't...." Read more
"...our failed Seagate, much happier with the UI, the drive management and the overall performance!" Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the connectivity of the system cabinet. For example, they say it keeps dropping the network connection, it won't stay online for more than a couple of hours, and it has known issues with randomly dropping ethernet connections. That said, it goes missing from every point of connection and the drive would intermittently stop showing up on their network. It constantly has to be restarted and the drives had issue staying in standby.
"...Drives had issue staying in standby however and would spin up regularly for seemingly no reason, even after disabling most features and..." Read more
"...Then it stopped connecting to the internet, tried running a direct connect to the PC and still wouldnt show up...." Read more
"...from your network and remotely, but after that it goes missing from every point of connection, meaning you cannot connect to the unit or the..." Read more
"...static IPs and even if you do, the transfer is so slow that the job will time out and you will get a back up transfer error in a while - before the..." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the support provided by the system cabinet. They mention that there is zero support, poor support for third party cloud, and less supported cameras.
"...avi (AVI container) is not supported by the Plex client (as it costs money for the license), nor is DTS passthrough, so the Media Server will try..." Read more
"...Their drives either use Debian 7 (wheezy) or Busy Box. Poor support and you void your warranty by going to the shell (SSH) just to clear errors...." Read more
"...known issues with randomly dropping ethernet connections and WD will not support it. I'm using it as an iSCSI target and it is horribly unstable...." Read more
"No support. Great unit if you need a boat anchor!" Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the stability of the system cabinet. They mention that it's not powerful enough to transcode, has iffy hardware quality, and is not stable when it'd be on a network.
"...on a EX4100 and dish out your media, but the one thing that it cannot do is transcoding...." Read more
"...The EX4100 is not powerful enough to transcode, so you cannot play such files if using this device as the server...." Read more
"...With that said, this SAN is not stable when it is onna network...." Read more
"...too $$$$ to have these issues when appears clear it is a manufacturing quality issue...." Read more
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1) Display makes seeing status easy
2) Once you find it, control panel is mostly intuitive.
3) Quiet after initial formatting and pairing
4) Plays nice with Mad OSX Ventura
5) Remote access is flawless
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Cons
1) almost no printed guides.
2) Worrisome with one of two RAID drives not acting the same
3) Almost impossible to register
4) A great deal of research into NAS / RAID setups is mandatory
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Before setting up the system do plenty of research of the different types of RAID options. The first and biggest mistake I made was not installing all the hard drives at once. When I wanted to configure the second two drives as RAID 1 as well ALL the drives needed to be reformatted . So I had to start from scratch. This is a newbie error. So you MUST have all four bays populated from the beginning. The remote access via the mywd website away from your home network is flawless but your mileage will vary based on the internet speeds on both sides. I have one worry as the first RAID is blinking like crazy which is probably based on the drives cloning each other. The second RAID is not blinking like the first but this could be based on the way Time Machine works with the RAID. The last frustration is that the wd site can be unintuitive and keeps on crashing when I try to register the NAS and the associated drives . I'll update if other issues, good or bad, manifest.
I owned a 2tb Seagate external drive for years. My wife and I used it for storing some of our data that we don't use often like our family photos, and sure enough it fell off of our entertainment system onto our carpeted floor and died. Yes....I know....I should have had a backup. Luckily because of my wife's inability to have a organized file structure on our laptop, she found a duplicate folder of all the photos that took us months to scan. After that I set out on a mission to have the best data storage solution on a non-commercial scale, which leads me to this product.
I did extensive research on data storage and came to the conclusion that I wanted a 4-bay NAS enclosure to start off with. Because my wife and I aren't rich by any means, plus having seen with my own eyes WD MyBooks fall from heights astronomically high and be completely fine, I knew that I wanted to go with WD drives, which then led me to this puppy. I did have my eyes on a QNAP NAS but the price was bit out there for what I wanted. The EX4100 had everything that I wanted for a good price point. I bought the diskless version, that way I could spread out the total cost of the drives over a period of time. It does come with a very easy to understand OS with a web login, and also mobile apps, which leads me to the next reason I liked the EX4100.
As someone said before in one of the reviews, the mobile MyCloud app does look a bit out-dated compared to other apps. It does its job at letting you view your files from anywhere in the world, granted that the speed at which the app searches through your files is based off of how fast your ISP connection (I have a the slowest package that my ISP has...15mb/s down so opening a folder through the app takes a couple seconds), and your device connection is. The one thing about this app that I think actually one ups google is that it can automatically backup your photos and videos from your phone. Now google can do that too but it gets backup to "Google Photos" so you can't actually work with the files unless you download them. The MyCloud app actually lets you SPECIFY A FOLDER to backup to which then allows you to organize things allot easier.
The other thing that I setup on it was a Plex server. It does advertise that you can install Plex on it. This is true, but if you look at the Plex Media Server compatibility list, yes it can run on a EX4100 and dish out your media, but the one thing that it cannot do is transcoding. I thought I wouldn't run into this issue, but after it refused to even show subtitles on some movies I had, I knew I had do something else. Re-purposing an old desktop with linux solved the issue. All in all, I can't complain about that issue because it was specified on the compatibility sheet, plus I do feel more comfortable taking the workload off of the NAS.
Now for the big topic....BACKUP. This is not a backup solution...this is merely a high capacity storage solution. My temporary backup plan will be to hookup a external drive (1Tb MyPassport Ultra to be exact) to the NAS and synchronize only the critical data...in my case family photos, videos, resumes, etc. Later on in the future I plan on purchasing a 2bay MyCloud NAS fitted with two 6Tb drives in RAID 0 to have a complete backup of the primary NAS.
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The mycould technology is a nice touch as well. You can get to your files from anywhere by logging into mycloud.com
One minor annoyance with me is every couple of days, I'll get an e-mail notification that the Firmware needs updating. I don't need to be reminded of this as I'll do it when I'm ready. Plus, I like to read the WD Community Forums for a few months after an update comes out to ensure the Firmware won't break anything.
I use the WD Sync software to keep files synced between the NAS and my computer. It's a bit buggy at the moment, but could be a great product if WD decides to update it.
I use that system directly, and also as a network fileserver for Windows machines. Recntly the disks started to fill up. To fix that problem I bought a Western Digital My Cloud 2100 diskless network-attached server . I put two 8 TB disks I had lying around into it. (Yes, I keep spare hard disks at home -- doesn't everyone?). I configured them as a two-fold redundant array. That gives me an 8 TB network disk. If one of the physical disks breaks, the network disk will continue to function while I replace the broken disk. Note that this is not the same as backup. In my experience the main use of backups is when you discover that you just stupidly deleted that presentation you've been working on for two months. The RAID1 redundancy doesn't help with that -- it just saves you from hardware failures.
I was so happy with this that I bought a Western Digital My Cloud 4100 diskless network-attached server and put four 16 TB disks in it, configured as two redundant arrays. That gave me two 16 TB network disks.
I have not used any other brand of NAS, so I can't compare. I am, however, quite happy with these systems. Under the hood these are linux system, like the one I set up on my Thinkserver, but optimized to be used as file servers. You can't really use one for programming, etc. But as file servers they are quite nice. SATA hard disks just snap in. You needn't use WD disks -- all mine at the moment are Seagate, and they work fine. There is an easy to use web interface for configuring the disks. Each device also has three USB 3.0 receptcles. You can plug an external USB disk into any one of these and back the My Cloud disk up on it. Also, any external disk plugged into any of the uSB ports is shared automatically as a network drive, which is very handy.
In most respects the 4100 is like the 2100. The main difference, of course, is that the 4100 has four hard disk bays and the 2100 just two. Also, the 4100 is taller and has an LED display that you can use to find out handy things such as the IP address and free space left.
It is relevant that I have been administering unix and linux systems for thirty years. I know what I'm doing, and it helps. Someone without *nix experience could figure it out, but it might not be trivial.
La unica desventaja es la necesidad de tener un disco duro ya formateado ya que cualquier instalacion nueva el sistema te pide darle formato. Yo esperaria que reconozca directamente un disco formateado con NTFS para solo meter y reconocer. Tuve que vaciar un disco a otro, formatear el primero y luego regresar los archivos una vez ya montado el disco en la NAS. Pequeño inconveniente pero nada que no se puede resolver.
Una vez instalado es practicamente silencioso y con una luz azul tenue que no molesta en una sala de estar.