I have the privilege of testing out the 4TB version of the M圜loud EX2 Ultra, which weighs approximately 3 pounds. The system is also very secure boasting 256 AES volume encryption. It has a Marvel ARMADA 1.3 GHz dual-core processor and 1 GB DDR3 memory, which makes saving and transferring data on this machine very quick and efficient. In addition to its connection through your network (Gigabit Ethernet), the WD M圜loud EX2 Ultra also has 2 – USB 3.0 ports, which allow you to expand to additional drives, which will work with the M圜loud software. For my purposes, I intend to leave the M圜loud as a RAID 1 system.
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RAID 0 will stripe data across both drives giving you the full 4TB of storage (if that’s the model you have), but you stand the chance of losing all your data if a drive fails since the two drives are bonded together – acting as one. And, because of the way the M圜loud EX2 Ultra is set-up, should a drive fail, you can take out the bad drive and replace it so that you don’t have a loss of data. This gives you a redundant back-up in the case of a drive failure. It comes pre-packaged as a RAID 1 drive, which means that your data is being stored on one of the 2 hard drives and then being cloned to the other. The WD M圜loud EX2 Ultra is a RAID system meaning that it has a “multiple physical disk drive components into a single logical unit for the purposes of data redundancy.” The M圜loud can be set-up as RAID 1 or RAID 0. All you need to get started is a router with Internet connection.
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This RAID storage system is compatible with Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Mac OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, or Lion operating systems.
The hard drives included in the MyBook system are WD Red NAS hard drives. You can even purchase an Assembly kit where you can add your own hard drives into it. WD M圜loud EX2 Ultra provides personal cloud storage in several size capacities – 4, 6, 8, or 12 TB. Fortunately, Western Digital has a fantastic new RAID drive, the M圜loud EX2 Ultra. As wonderful as they were (and still are), the world has become wireless and it’s time to move to a more cloud-based system. After that point, we turned to Western Digital and their MyBook series hard drives for our archival needs. We had to start the client’s project from scratch and it cost us a lot of time and money. There was one occasion when I was working as a video editor where a RAID hard drive system completely failed and all of our data was lost. I’ve been burned many times before by hard drive failures and having a back-up has always saved me. Never were there more truer words of wisdom when working with technology. Western Digital M圜loud EX2 Ultra brings simplicity to the NAS cloud server.
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