Pre-installed utilities include simple P2P downloads, as well as HTTP and FTP backups. ![]() There’s also a healthy collection of apps that includes IceCast, Dropbox, aMule, Joomla (content management), Transmission (for BitTorrent), and Z-way (for use with a Z-Wave IoT dongle). It’s not as clever as the windows-in-a-browser featured by some other boxes, but it can be navigated just as quickly. The EX2 Ultra’s interface, the same one used on all the My Cloud NAS boxes, is a clean, easy-to-browse, tabbed affair. ![]() The fast throughput translated to very smooth 4K UHD (2160p) streaming and fast backups. ![]() With two mirrored 4TB WD drives on board, those components powered the box to the one of the best throughput scores we’ve seen, lagging only slightly behind Netgear’s ReadyNAS 212-a product that costs twice as much. The EX2 Ultra features a Marvell Armada 385 CPU and 1GB of memory. The WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra deliverd solid performances on both our read and write benchmarks. ![]() But because of the unusual way drives are mounted (with bearing-head screws that fit in slots at the top of the bays), installing 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs requires both an adapter tray and a SATA data/power extension cable. It’s easy to add or swap 3.5-inch drives by popping open the latched top, unscrewing a retaining clip, and sliding the drives in or out.
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