WD outs its My Cloud Pro, a turn key platform with 40TB capacity! ... The internal drives are 10TB WD Red units, ... four bays across the front with LED indicators below and a small screen above.

Today, WD announced the latest member in its user-friendly My Cloud series, the EX2 NAS server, which turns out to be among the best of its type.

The My Cloud EX2100 joins WD's Expert series of storage devices and comes in diskless or populated options up to 12TB, with our sample sporting 8TB of storage courtesy of two 4GB Red hard disks.

We tested the 8TB, two-drive My Cloud Home Duo, which sports a single gigabit ethernet port and two Type-A USB 3.0 ports on the back. (There’s also a single-drive unit with only a single USB port.) ...

On the front the device has one blue LED status light that stays solid when it's powered up and flashing when there is data activity. On the back are a Gigabit Ethernet port, a USB 3.0 port, and ...

The CPU is a 1.3GHz Marvel ARMADA 385 dual-core (the first-gen My Cloud mirror came with a single-core processor), there’s 512MB of DDR3 memory, and our 4TB version shipped with two 2TB WD RED ...

It is an elegant piece of kit, with subtle LED lighting filling the front-panel gap between the two halves, and the plastic top lid pops off, revealing access to a pair of 4TB WD Red NAS-optimised ...

Some WD My Cloud users are experiencing major problems because they can’t access their data—and it’s a painful example of why we all need to have multiple backups.

We can’t fault WD’s 5400-rpm Red drives for the EX4’s slow performance. We swapped them out for 7200-rpm Seagate Constellation drives, and saw about the same performance.

That’s it. There really isn’t anything more to the My Cloud as a device. The magic sits within the software. Rounding out the hardware, the WD My Cloud ships with an Ethernet cable and external power ...

You can pick up the WD My Cloud Home Duo with a number of storage configurations, across both the one-bay and tow-bay models. In terms of the two-bay unit that we had for testing, you can buy it ...

Priced from £350, the EX4100 is available as a diskless unit or pre-equipped with NAS-optimised WD Red hard disks in 8TB (2x4TB), 16TB (4x4TB) and 24TB (4x6TB) capacities.