Western Digital's EX2 has the same interface and many of the good qualities of other products in its My Cloud portfolio. Yet the EX2 showed a few troubling issues in testing that makes us hesitate ...

WD’s My Cloud Mirror solves that problem by putting a second drive in the same enclosure, and configuring the drives as RAID 1.

With its friendly pricing, fast performance, and handy personal cloud features, the WD My Cloud EX2 is an ideal network storage device for a small connected home.

And, within the NAS drive market in 2022, WD's My Cloud Expert EX2 Ultra and the QNAP TS-332X are two of the most popular, bought models.

So when Western Digital's WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra, a dual-bay server, crossed my desk, you could consider my interest piqued.

The My Cloud EX2 comes preconfigured in RAID 1 mode to protect data from the start and is configurable into other data protection modes.

WD sells a lot of NAS boxes—products like the My Cloud EX2 Ultra are why. This box handles the streaming and backup basics with aplomb, is easy to set up, yet costs only $159 sans drives.

The first seed was planted in October, when the My Cloud external storage device debuted with a single 3.5" hard drive, a slick enclosure, and cloud-friendly software.

Today, we're comparing the Buffalo LinkStation 520 and WD My Cloud Expert Series EX2 to find the best NAS drives for every budget.

Storage specialist Western Digital Corporation updated its prosumer solutions with My Cloud EX2 Ultra, a two-bay network attached storage (NAS) system.

Western Digital's EX2 has the same interface and many of the good qualities of other products in its My Cloud portfolio. Yet the EX2 showed a few troubling issues in testing that makes us hesitate ...

Western Digital's EX2 has the same interface and many of the good qualities of other products in its My Cloud portfolio. Yet the EX2 showed a few troubling issues in testing that makes us hesitate ...