WD Western Digital EX2 Ultra

Western Digital EX2 Ultra NAS-16TB

Interface

• Gigabit Ethernet
• Power supply (DC in) x 1
• USB 3.0 expansion port x 2 rear

CPU

• Marvell® ARMADA® 385 1.3 GHz dual-core

Memory

• 1 GB DDR3

Drive bays

• 2 x 3.5 inch hard drive bays, hot swap capable, tray-less design

Internal hard drives

• WD Red NAS hard drives

Expansion Ports

• 2 USB 3.0 ports

System Requirements

• Windows 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7 operating system
• Mac OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, or Lion operating systems
• DLNA/UPnP devices for streaming
• Router with Internet connection

Supported Web Browsers

• Internet Explorer 10 or higher
• Safari 6 or higher
• Firefox 30 or higher
• Google Chrome 31 or higher on supported Windows and Mac OS platforms

Network Protocols

• DHCP Client or Static IP
• NTP Client
• Dynamic DNS (DDNS)
• Apple Bonjour and Windows Rally
• Jumbo frame support up to 9K
• VLAN (802.1Q)
• Link Aggregation and failover for 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports
• UPnP port forwarding
• LLTD Link Layer Topology Discovery Protocol
• iSCSI
• SSH

Network File Services

• OS Supports
  • Windows XP Home/ Pro/ 64-bit SP3+
  • Windows Vista/ 7/ 8 (All versions)
  • Mac OS X 10.6, Lion, Mountain Lion
• CIFS/SMB for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
• Linux Distributed File System (DFS)
• AFP for Mac OS X
• FTP/SFTP Server
• WebDAV Server
• Microsoft Active Directory support

Backup management

• Remote backups: My Cloud Expert Series to My Cloud Expert Series locally or remotely
• Backup internal files or folders of the device to other files/folders on the NAS or attached USB drive
• WD SmartWare Pro for Windows clients
• Apple Time Machine (10.5.8+) support
• Cloud-based backup services
  • Amazon S3
  • ElephantDrive
• Disk sync management for the attached USB ports

Disk management

• RAID: JBOD, spanning, 0/1
• RAID migration
  • JBOD to RAID 1
• Hot swapping
• Disk roaming
• Array roaming

Security

• Volume Encryption (256 bit AES)

File System

• EXT4 for internal HDD
• Support following formats for externally attached USB drives
  • FAT/FAT32
  • NTFS (read and write capability)
  • HFS+J (case sensitive)
  • Linux EXT2, EXT3, EXT4
• Support for mounting ISO-Image

FTP Server

• Support Port Setting
• Set port range of passive FTP
• Option to report external IP in PASV mode
• Client language selection
• Anonymous FTP
• Secure FTP Support
• Support File eXchange Protocol (FXP)
• FTP bandwidth restriction (upstream/downstream)
• IP address block (block access from undesired IP address)