So I am looking at upgrading from my my cloud to a my cloud ex2 ultra but the one without any a hard drive in it but I have some questions on it before I buy and I haven’t been able to find the answers on these forums or google so I was hoping someone could answer these questions for me.
My first question is if I crack open my current my cloud and take the hard drive out, erase everything and reformat the hard drive out of it can I then put that hard drive in the ex2 ultra?
My other question is instead of setting it up as a raid where it makes a backup on the second hard drive can I set it as tow completely different hard drives because what I want to do is have one of the drives in there for my documents, contact, music and videos and then have the other hard drive for just pictures and then can you set up a different password for each of the drives?
The last thing I’m wondering is I notice on the back of the device there is 2 usb ports so could I then plug in two portable external hard drives and tell each one to backup each of the drives so that I have a back up of each drive?
Well, I will answer the questions in a sequence as per the series.
►First of all, WD® do not recommend this, but you can definitely use the drive that is placed inside the WD® My Cloud into another enclosure. but make sure that the form factor remains same, there should not be any extra attachment with the hard drive such as PCB which can damage the bay of the eclouser.
(WD® is not responisble for any damage that is made by you while pacing the drive in the another enclousure)
►Well the answer of the another question that setting up the drive as a seprated drive without creating any raid, You can also do so but confugring the raid in JBOD (JBOD (which stands for “just a bunch of disks”) generally refers to a collection of hard disks that have not been configured to act as a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array.
Refer to the given link in order to know more about JBOD
¬ And if you want to password protect the each drive you can use the dashboad of the cloud and go under the storage create a RAID and after the process it will ask you for the encryption on each drive, use that method to password protect the drive.
►Yes you can attach the 2 diffrent external mass storage drive at the back of the WD® My Cloud USB port and you can backup the data on it seprately by creating a job on it.
Disagree. I love the EX2 Ultra, bought refurbished 12TB re-certified on eBay for a great price.
To me this is a very good NAS, not perfect but so much better than connecting a tiny HDD directly to the router via USB3.0.
Around 100MB/s transfer rate. Remote access via iOS App, all good.
Thank you very much you have answered most of my questions, but just to clarify on the last two questions for the password they are no going to be in a RAID format they are just going to be two independent hard drives so on the password could I have one pass word for the 1st had drive and have a completely different password for the 2nd hard drive?
Then if I plug two different hard drives into the 2 usbs could I then tell the nas to back up the first hard drive onto a specific external hard drive and then tell it to back up the 2nd hard drive to the other hard drive and just choose witch hard drive gets backed up to witch external hard drive?
I appreciate the info and the concern about the vulnerabilities but it’s on a router/network that only I have the access to. Plus I only live with one other person (besides the dog) and I trust them.
It also had a hardcoded backdoor in it which was remotely exploitable for months until the last update with user mydlinkBRionyg and password abc12345cba I think that says enough about software-quality and that also explains your “great price” - you get what you pay for.
Maybe somebody used this to access your data. But hey, all good
Good point.
I made some changes as to what I save on the NAS.
Dropbox is much less complicated. Prefer real cloud storage to be honest and using the NAS for media only now, not sure if that is avoiding security issues, probably not.
One thing I really hate about the my cloud is the raw conversion. I thought I get it to backup my picture library, couple TB but the drive keeps working for days on the thumbnail generation? but in the end by CR2 (Canon raw files) still don’t show as thumbnails, maybe I’m doing something wrong?
Why can’t this conversion simply be toggled ON/Off?
So I’m going to be buying the stuff for my nas and I have more questions about backing up. I know I can put two external hard drives to backup each drive if I set it up as a just a bunch of discs. But now I’m looking at doing a raid 0 can still set it up to back up each disc to it’s own external hard drive or if I have 2 3 tb hard drives in the nas could I get one 6 tb external hard drive and back up the entire nas to it? I’m also wondering if I take my my cloud and run a file transfer cable between the my cloud and the ex2 nas can I then set up the my cloud as a backup drive?
I think that says enough about software-quality and that also explains your “great price” - you get what you pay for.
