I was impressed by how easy this device was to set up and use. And you can access photos using a dedicated iOS app. You can access media files via iTunes Home Sharing, though I found this to be unreliable. ![]() It lets you add apps, such as Plex Media Server and others. The device has lots of other features, such as the ability to download files directly, via HTTP, FTP, or P2P. (You may not know it, but you can have Time Machine alternate its backups among multiple disks.) You can also connect an external USB drive to back up the files on the device. My iMac is set to back up to a local disk and to the My Cloud EX 2, while my MacBook Pro backs up only to the remote disk. One of the most practical features is the ability to use this device for Time Machine backups. And you can stream music or videos stored on the device. You can also link other cloud accounts, from Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive, to this app, and transfer files from those cloud services to your personal cloud. You can view and download files, email them, and send email links so others can access them without being able to see your other files (similar to the way you share a public link to a file in a Dropbox folder). You can also access files using the My Cloud iOS app, whether you are on your network or remotely. You can add files to the device by dragging them onto this app’s window or you can mount the shared volume in the Finder, and add and manage files in Finder windows. There’s a WD My Cloud desktop app, which you can use to view, upload, and download files. You interact with the device in several ways. While the Mac Cloud EX2 is very user-friendly, it’s still a complex device, and there are lots of settings available in the browser configuration pages. ![]() ![]() This allows you to set up RAID configurations (Raid 0, RAID 1, Spanning or JBOD just a bunch of disks), You can add, remove, or edit users and groups manage shares configure cloud access add apps, and more. The device’s software manages the network address translation, so all you need to do to access it remotely is connect it to a router.Īfter the initial setup, you fine-tune your device through your web browser. (There is no fee for this service.) You can add users to this account, and set their permissions – which files and folders they can access – from a web interface. This allows you to connect to the My Cloud EX2 remotely, from a different computer, or even from an iOS device, using Western Digital’s apps. Setup is just a few clicks, and, during this process, you also set up a “personal cloud” account. It doesn’t have all the features of a true NAS, but, if you want a device that’s easy to set up and use, the My Cloud EX 2 (and the other versions that Western Digital makes) is a solid device with a rich feature set. My Cloud EX2 is a type of NAS, but with a much more user-friendly interface. You may be familiar with network attached storage devices (NAS) these are (to simplify) networked hard drives, which can be complicated to set up and manage. Western Digital’s My Cloud EX2 (, Amazon UK) lets you create your own personal cloud, as well as have a home repository for files and backups. While these are generally easy to work with, and great for sharing files with others, you may not want to store your files on someone else’s servers. ![]() There are lots of cloud storage services you can use: iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and more.
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