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The online account with WDM圜 basically allows for a VPN-like connection over the Internet for computer users.

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This feature allows you to sign up for a WDM圜 online account for each user account of the NAS server, and to create an access code for a remote device. Similar to its predecessors, the biggest selling point of the My Cloud EX2 is the Cloud Access feature. The EX2's interface is well-organized and easy to use, and offers access to all of the server's customizations and settings. To get there, point a connected computer to the server's IP address or click on the Dashboard icon created by the WD Setup software. To make changes to the settings of the server, including turning its features on and off, adding more users, restricting access, and so on, you will need to use the server's Web interface.

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You don't need to install any of these programs for the server to work, however.

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These are helpful software for both Macs and PCs, with the exception of the WD SmartWare backup program, which is only available for Windows since Macs already have built-in Time Machine backup. Other than than the WD My Cloud application and the mobile app, the EX2 also comes with a few other applications for computers. Now if you want to add a remote device, such as one belonging to a friend who lives in a different city or country, to the server, you can create an access code and sent it to that device using e-mail. In other words, there's no extra setup or log-in needed to make the app work with the server remotely. After this first step, now even when you're out and about, connecting to a different Wi-Fi network or using a cellular connection, the mobile app on your device will maintain access to the My Cloud EX2 server via the Internet. Now when you run the app, it will immediately connect to the My Cloud EX2 and create a trust relationship.

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From within the same home network, via Wi-Fi, download the app on your mobile device from the Google Play or App Store. The next part is using the WD My Cloud mobile apps (available for iOS and Android). The Setup software will install shortcuts to the server's share folders (so you don't have look for them), to server's Web interface Dashboard, and install WD My Cloud application, which offers another way to browse the content of the server on a computer. Here you can download the WD Setup software (which is about 65MB and takes a few minutes to download on a residential broadband connection). First from a connected computer, just go to wd.com/setup/mycloudex2. If you want to do more, however, there are a few extra steps. That said, if you use the My Cloud EX2 with a group of computers with no need for data privacy among themselves, there's really nothing to setting up the My Cloud, other than plugging it in. All DLNA-enabled network media player devices, such as the WD TV, will also immediately find the content stored on the server for streaming purposes. Macs will immediately see the My Cloud as an available destination for Time Machine backup and the My Cloud EX2 will also appear on Finder. That said, the EX2 is ideal for a household with five users or fewer, even though the server supports up to 10 concurrent users.įrom a Windows computer, you can immediately browse for these share folders, using Windows Explorer, and copy data (such as digital content) over. While 4TB is a huge amount, it can fill up pretty fast with multiple users. You can use the server in RAID 0 to get the maximum 8TB of storage space but this is not recommend due to the high-risk of data loss.

That said, for now, the top protected capacity of the EX2 is 4TB. This is because for a dual-bay server, RAID 1 is the only option that offers data redundancy - meaning your data remains intact in the event one of the internal drives fails - and therefore is recommended for the EX2. If you get an EX2 already populated with hard drives, they will be two WD Red drives set up in RAID 1.

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In my trial, these ports have enough juice to power bus-powered portable drives, such as the WD My Passport. The network port is to connect the server to a home network, and the USB ports are to host external hard drives to be either the backup destination of the server or to expand the server's storage space. On the back the server comes with a Gigabit network port and two USB 3.0 ports. On the front, the server comes with a few small LED lights that show the status of the power and two internal drives.