Western Digital's My Cloud EX2 NAS fits a niche between WD's consumer-targeted My Cloud and its four-bay business storage solution the My Cloud EX4 . The EX2 is as easy to set up as the My Cloud home NAS, and it incorporates some of the advanced capabilities of the EX4.The EX2 has the same clean,...

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

When I was younger, I have heard "adults" boasting about their Hard Drive storage space being the latest in technology with 10GB or 20GB of space and that will be enough for a very long time.

Ready to use right out of the box and very easy to setup; Gives you the personal cloud features that can be accessed with free to use mobile apps and software; Affordable pricing for a NAS in similar class; Cost efficient; much better than setting up a dedicated system just for the same purpose

Flimsy build quality of the enclosure; Limited expandability; No options for accessing the drives via USB interface

As one of the biggest names in the storage industry, Western Digital doesn't need much of an introduction. Founded in 1970, the company got its start by manufacturing calculator chips.

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 backups; Twonky and iTunes media servers,...

Mediocre write speeds

The WD My Cloud EX2 is a well-priced dual-bay RAID NAS drive for us sharing media around your home or data across a small business. Here's our WD My Cloud EX2 review.

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.

Last October, Western Digital launched the My Cloud . This device was essentially a network connected version of their My Book line of external hard drives, but with Internet connectivity and apps that could reach back to the My Cloud even when you were away from home.

First NAS device. Wanted something basic, easy to use, with some "pro" features. This seems to fit the bill. Was easy to setup and get connected to. RAID was simple to configure. PC and device software works pretty well.

Compact; Easy Setup; Quiet

The WD My Cloud EX2 is a well-priced dual-bay RAID NAS drive for us sharing media around your home or data across a small business. Here's our WD My Cloud EX2 review.

I really like this as I am able to access it from anywhere with a reasonable WiFi connection - even to the extent of playing music from it. Good product.

Easy out-of-the-box installation; Form Factor; Decent Read speeds; Spin-Down feature

No Power and copy HDD to USB buttons; No 2.5″ drive support; Write Speeds; Limited app support; WD Dashboard redirects only to the NAS' IP address setup during first installation; No disclosure of actual CPU used