Does WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra support WD Green HDD

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud EX2
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Hello,

I want to buy an WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra to give use to 2 of 3 WD Green HDD 1TB from older computers. They are SATA 3.0Gb/s.

Does WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra support this WD HDD?

Can they be configured without RAID, to use the maximum capacity? I don´t care the eventual data loss in future.

Thank you

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Hi afmr,

Actually, it’s not recommended to use WD Green HDD in NAS devices. To have the parallel performance with NAS devices it is recommended to use WD Red HDD.

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I’m running WD Green 3TB x2 in my EX2 Ultra.
Crystal Disk Mark displayed 118MB/s read and write via my gigabit network (gigabit max throughput 125MB/s).

I don’t know if mismatched drive sizes are supported/allowed with the EX2 Ultra (my old Lenovo NAS did not function with mismatched drive sizes at all).

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I bought my EX2 Ultra Diskless and then I bought 2x4 TB red HDDs to work with Raid 1 and I couldn’t be happier. It works like a charm, apart from the slow sync / access on the NAS itself.