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	This Item WD 8TB My Cloud EX4100 Expert Series 4-Bay Network Attached Storage - NAS - WDBWZE0080KBK-NESN	Recommendations BUFFALO TeraStation 3420DN 4-Bay SMB 8TB (2x4TB) Desktop NAS with Hard Drives Included Network Attached Storage	dummy Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD – 3.5 Inch SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache for RAID Network Attached Storage – Frustration Free Packaging (ST8000VNZ04/N004)	dummy Western Digital 4TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5400 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" -WD40EFPX	dummy Western Digital 8TB WD Red Pro NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 7200 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD8003FFBX	dummy Western Digital 8TB WD Red Plus NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD - 5640 RPM, SATA 6 Gb/s, CMR, 256 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD80EFPX
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Customer Ratings	3.556	4.6177	4.613,067	4.68,998	4.62,764	4.68,998
Value for money	—	4.7	4.1	4.2	3.9	4.2
Storage Capacity	—	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.6
Easy to install	—	—	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.5
Noise level	—	—	3.9	4.3	4.2	4.3
Quality of material	—	—	—	4.1	4.6	4.1
Sold By	—	Buffalo Americas Inc	Amazon.com	Amazon.com	Amazon.com	Amazon.com
storage capacity	8 TB	8 TB	8 TB	0 TB	8 TB	8000 GB
hardware interface	ethernet	sata 6 0 gb	sata 6 0 gb	sata 6 0 gb	sata 6 0 gb	sata 6 0 gb
compatible devices	PC; Mac	Desktop, Laptop, Windows, Mac, Linux	Desktop	NAS System	Storage System, Desktop PC	NAS Server
form factor	—	Desktop	3.5-inch	3.5-inch	3.5-inch	3.5-inch

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centralized Storage With Anytime, Anywhere Access Store And Organize Your Photos, Videos, Music And Files In One Safe Place. Access And Share Them Anytime, From Anywhere. High-performance Powerful Marvell Armada 388 1.6 Ghz Dual-core Processor And 2 Gb Ddr3 Memory Gives You Ultra-fast Transfer Speeds Of 115 Mb/s Upload And 107 Mb/s Download For High-performance Media Streaming And File Transfers. Media Streaming With The Built-in Twonky Dlna-certified Media Server, You Can Seamlessly Stream All Your Hd Content To Media Players, Smart Tvs, Gaming Consoles And Other Dlna-certified Devices. Comprehensive Data Protectionbackup That's Right For You Keep Your Irreplaceable Photos, Videos And Files Safe With Multiple, Automatic Backup Options For All The Computers On Your Network. For Pc Users, Wd Smartware Pro Offers Options For How, When And Where Your Content Gets Backed Up. For Mac Users, Utilize All The Features Of Apple Time Machine To Protect Your Content. You Can Also Automatically back Up Your Backup To Another Offsite My Cloud Expert Series Device Or To A Supported Cloud Service, Including Dropbox, Elephantdrive And Amazon S3. Multiple Raid Options Armed With Multiple Raid Options, You Have The Power To Customize The System With The Configuration That Works Best For You. Choose Raid 0 For Enhanced System Performance; Raid 1 For Mirrored Data Protection; Raid 5 For Data Protection And Best Capacity; Or Raid 10 For Fast Performance And Ultimate Data Reliability. Other Options Include Jbod And Spanning. Raid Roaming Allows You To Keep Your Raid Array Intact When You Move Drives From One My Cloud Ex4100 Device To Another. Raid Migration Lets You Change Your Raid Configuration And Expand Storage Without Losing Content. Advanced Data Security 256 Aes Volume Encryption Provides Additional Protection For Your Valuable Photos, Videos, Music And Files. Recycle Bin With This Optional Feature, Deleted Files Are Not Erased Completely From The Nas, But

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Built-in reliability

Populated with ultra-reliable WD Red NAS drives purposely built to thrive in 24x7 NAS environments.

Ready-to-go NAS for your high-performance life

Save all your valuable photos, videos, music and files on this ready-to-go, high-performance NAS solution for secure access to them anytime, from anywhere. Protect your content with multiple backup options, customize your NAS with a full suite of apps and enjoy peace of mind knowing that we’ve put our best in it, so you can put your best on it.

Incredibly fast transfer rates
Smooth HD streaming
Fully integrated, ultra-reliable WD Red NAS drives
Comprehensive data protection and security


Faster speed, better streaming Powerful Marvell ARMADA 388 1.6 GHz dual-core processor and 2 GB DDR3 memory gives you ultra-fast transfer speeds of 114 MB/s upload and 108 MB/s download for high-performance media streaming and file transfers.	Safeguard your irreplaceable content Armed with multiple RAID options, you have the power to customize the system with the configuration that works best for you. Choose RAID 0 for enhanced system performance; RAID 1 for mirrored data protection; RAID 5 for data protection and best capacity; or RAID 10 for fast performance and ultimate data reliability. Multiple backup options keep content from all your PC and Mac computers safe.	Sync content across all your computers Use WD Sync to automatically synchronize media and files across all your computers and your My Cloud device, keeping your favorite content always up to date and accessible from all your devices.


Simple, collaborative sharing Create one efficient location for you, your family and friends to save and share all your important content. Your most important files will be stored and shared, at full resolution, so nobody misses a thing.	Stream your media files with Plex The Plex Media Server keeps all your photos, videos and music beautifully organized and prepared for streaming to your PC, mobile device, game console, or other certified media player. Enrich your media with plot summaries, posters, album covers and enjoy it from home or on the go.

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RAM

‎2 GB

Hard Drive

‎8 TB Desktop

Number of USB 2.0 Ports

‎1

Number of USB 3.0 Ports

‎3

Other Technical Details

Brand

‎WD

Series

‎WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Item model number

‎WDBWZE0080KBK-NESN

Hardware Platform

‎PC, Mac

Operating System

‎PC; Mac

Item Weight

‎2.43 pounds

Product Dimensions

‎9.13 x 7.56 x 6.69 inches

Item Dimensions LxWxH

‎9.13 x 7.56 x 6.69 inches

Color

‎Black

Number of Processors

‎2

Flash Memory Size

‎8

Hard Drive Interface

‎Raid

Voltage

‎19 Volts

Manufacturer

‎Western Digital

ASIN

‎B00TB8XN2E

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

‎No

Date First Available

‎February 27, 2015

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3.5 56 ratings

3.5 out of 5 stars

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#331 in Network Attached Storage (NAS) Devices

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Amazon.com Return Policy:You may return any new computer purchased from Amazon.com that is "dead on arrival," arrives in damaged condition, or is still in unopened boxes, for a full refund within 30 days of purchase. Amazon.com reserves the right to test "dead on arrival" returns and impose a customer fee equal to 15 percent of the product sales price if the customer misrepresents the condition of the product. Any returned computer that is damaged through customer misuse, is missing parts, or is in unsellable condition due to customer tampering will result in the customer being charged a higher restocking fee based on the condition of the product. Amazon.com will not accept returns of any desktop or notebook computer more than 30 days after you receive the shipment. New, used, and refurbished products purchased from Marketplace vendors are subject to the returns policy of the individual vendor.

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Customers like the performance and ease of setup of the computer drive. For example, they mention it works great, the media server app Twonky works fine, and the WD backup software works fine. That said, some complain about the quality. They say it works only for a few hours, is useless, and has a fan that doesn't work.

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Customers are satisfied with the performance of the computer drive. They mention that it works well, the media server app Twonky works fine, and the WD backup software works fine.

"...this right next to the office router and we are getting great performance." Read more

"...I tried Plex but could not get it to work well. The WD backup software works fine I have 5 devices performing backups." Read more

"works great" Read more

"Great Performance and Quiet..." Read more

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Customers find the setup of the computer drive effortless.

"Well easy setup, that is if you have any drives installed, ordered an 8GB system and it was diskless, should of had 4 -2TB drives...." Read more

"Easy setup worked as expected. I purchased a additional 4g HD turning the unit into 12g then configured it with raid5 leaving me with 8g NAS...." Read more

"Product is well made and setup was effortless. I decided to add two additional drives (it came with 2), and had no problems doing so...." Read more

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Customers are dissatisfied with the quality of the computer drive. They mention that it works only for a few hours, then goes frozen again. Some say that the fan is not working and that it shuts down due to overheating.

"...Suddenly oneof the boxes said the fan is not working and in about an hour it shuts down due to overheating...." Read more

"After updating to OS 5, it has become useless. It freezes and gets back to work only with unplugging the power cable and plugging it back and it..." Read more

"The website is always down. From an IT point to f view this product is not good." Read more

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John T. Horner

Great centralized file storage and backup for our small office

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2016

Verified Purchase

This is the first network attached storage device in our small office environment. It is taking me a while to learn how best to use it. The most important trick is to download SmartWare from the Western Digital website and install that software on all the attached computers. I'm now using this to automatically back up three different Windows-10 based desktop machines and to create a central shared file storage area for files everyone needs access to. I'm struggled a bit with the learning curve, but that is because this is all new to me.

I installed this right next to the office router and we are getting great performance.

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Mighty_Cranium

BE FOREWARNED ABOUT WD NAS BOXES -

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2021

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VERY disgusted with WD whom I always liked as a manufacturer. I have a couple of EX4100 boxes that are stuffed with exclusively WD drives, so as I said, I was a WD advocate. Suddenly oneof the boxes said the fan is not working and in about an hour it shuts down due to overheating. So I decide that I'll just call WD and order a replacement since the fan itself is made under agreement that it cannot be sold other than to WD.
I open a WD ticket asking how to order this, and I am informed by them that WD has no interest in repair outside of warranty. either by themselves or assisting the customer fix their own! WHAT?!?! They said "WD drives are manufactured using non-serviceable parts inside. Hence the drives are not serviced." Just to be clear, the translation of this is "Our products are not worth repairing - so we won't waste time on them." WHY in the world would I want to buy hardware that the manufacturer makes efforts to stop me from repairing outside of warranty? THIS IS CRAZY TALK. I thought all the complaining people on the forums were just whackos but this event showed me that they are correct...WD makes great drives....but absolutely TERRIBLE NAS boxes. So bad in fact that they themselves not only refuse to repair (irritating but understandable) but they actually make contractual efforts to stop their own customers from protecting WD products. Completely unacceptable. Everyone knows WD is the bottom of the industry in customer support but this indicates the NAS boxes are also the bottom of the world in product quality.

4 people found this helpful

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TravelingBob

Two significant issues you should know - I would still purchase again but really WD - FIX THEM.

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2018

Verified Purchase

Two issues people need to know about this product - neither are so significant that I wouldn't purchase the product. However, people need to know. You can only "map" a drive if the PC and the NAS are on the same network - you can't "map" a drive across the internet - so you can't use the data transparently - you need to download/upload files if the PC you are working on is not on the same network. Second, WD has a known issue with this product that if drive bays 3 & 4 are empty you will receive very concerning error messages "Event title:Drive Failed" - this can stop your heart! If you go to their web page and look for this you can find information that you are to just ignore it if you don't have drives in bays 3 & 4. However, this is a signifiant concern as I may miss a bay 1 or 2 failure because I see this message all the time and don't realize it's a bay 1 & 2 not 3 & 4. WD is way to big to not solve this issue. It's not a cheap product. They need to iron out the bugs in their software.

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damjr

Well easy setup, that is if you have any drives ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2016

Verified Purchase

Well easy setup, that is if you have any drives installed, ordered an 8GB system and it was diskless, should of had 4 -2TB drives. However Amazon as good as they are shipped another ASAP, it was configured with 2-4TB drives which is OK except it limits me to RAID0,1. I was expecting 4-2TB drives in an 8TB configuration to support RAID5,10 which is much more reliable than JBOD, RAID0,1.

What does that mean? I will have to spend the extra almost $300 for WD Red 4TB drives for RAID5,10 but well worth the expenditure if you value your data.

Very nice interface with dual supply inputs, aggregated 1G ports and USB3.0 x3. For the home User DLNA and Cloud support is nice also multiple user account for remote synch or local synch via USB of mobile phone pics, movies and docs into their own private directories.

Migrating from a Seagate GOFlex 2TB setup which served its purpose but is also super limited to backup/restore and DLNA ops.

If your on the fence on what to get I would move up into the EX4100 series as it is expandable to 32TB if I remember correct, recommendation spend the extra cash and get something usable in todays home computing and mobile/tablet market. BUY!!!

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JustAReview

Make sure you’ve planned correctly

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2018

Verified Purchase

Why 4 stars? Software sometimes has problems with storage view. Not enough problem to think about as only intermittent. My bigger issue was not being 100% on RAID I wanted. Only took a week before I bought 2 more drives. Now I have to RAIDs in the box. I should have started with all 4 drives and configured. That’s on me.

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Blink67

Bought a 4-bay RAID 5 8 TB NAS and got 2 4TB drives and mirroring only with 2 empty drive bays! WHY?!?

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2017

Verified Purchase

BEWARE!! Ordered the 8 TB 4-bay NAS expecting it to be populated with 4 2TB HDD for a RAID 5 configuration. (After all - 4 bays with 2 TB HDD would be 8 TB with 6TB usable in a RAID 5 configuration.) What did I get? 4-bay NAS with 2 4TB HDD in 2 drive bays!!! That gives me mirroring of 4 TB as the only protected option! If I wanted a 2-bay mirror configuration, I'd have bout the 2-bay NAS array and not the 4-bay!!! This is COMMON SENSE!!! So - I was forced to buy 2 more 4 TB HDD to round the NAS out to the RAID 5 config I originally wanted! The drive layout is never stated in the product description. There should be plainly stated info on the drive configuration when ordering!

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Gary

Great Performance and Quiet

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2016

Verified Purchase

I love this server. The WD App lets me access any file or picture on my phone. Super quiet I do not even hear it unless the 5 second fan burst on start up. Got it to replace my HP Windows Home Media Server and so happy with it. Run RAID 5 and added a WD My Book as a safety back up.

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Allen G.

It freezes

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2021

Verified Purchase

After updating to OS 5, it has become useless. It freezes and gets back to work only with unplugging the power cable and plugging it back and it works only for a few hours then goes frozen again.
I have talked to tech support and they pretended like they have never had such issue and sent me some instruction which did not work at all. Then I searched internet and found out that this is an old issue going for years even for older OS and it depends how lucky you are to face this issue or not!
So do not waste your money on this!

7 people found this helpful

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Gilberto Aguilar

Muy buen servicio

Reviewed in Mexico on May 6, 2021

Verified Purchase

Fue rápida la entrega, en buenas condiciones, excelente servicio

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David Z.

A NAS worth considering!

Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2016

Verified Purchase

Feb.14.17 - Update

I've been using this NAS for 10 months now and it has been a solid performer. Transfer speeds are very fast if you use a good router and cat 6 or 7 cables. I bought a few cat7 cables from a vendor here on Amazon and noticed an improvement in speed from my cat5 cables. Spending the few extra dollars was worth it to me. The only weak point I have about this NAS is that you cannot expand the memory, so if you plan on buying a NAS to use as a media-server, you might want to consider a device with more memory and/or one that allows you to add additional memory. I have Plex installed on this NAS and have used it and, for the most part, it works fine. I have noticed that it has difficulty (at times) maintaining picture quality - as in you get a spinning wheel and have to wait a moment. There is a possibility the problem is/was associated with my Chrome Cast device and the NAS wasn't to blame. However, because I have Plex installed on another PC (also used as a media server) and haven't experienced the same problem casting from it, I suspect the problem is associated with the NAS being a little under-powered for some intense jobs.

I am still very happy with this NAS and would not have a problem recommending it to friends.

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I did a lot of research before finally deciding to purchase this device and, after having used it for a few days, I am very satisfied with my purchase. This is an 8 TB unit with 2*4TB drives, which means two drive bays are empty. That might be a sore point for some people, but it was the exact configuration I wanted because it allowed me to install 2 additional drives to increase the storage capacity. The primary purpose of this NAS is to provide a backup location for the Apple & Window computers I have. I therefore did not use a RAID configuration - JBOD only.

Installation and setup was very easy and straight forward; simple enough for a novice to accomplish without too much trouble and/or spending a lot of time trying to do it and getting frustrated. Now, having said that, I was not initially pleased with the read/write speed during initial testing. It was so slow that transferring a large file would have taken hours, not minutes as would be expected on a Gigabit network. I knew it wasn't a (NAS) hardware problem and, after reviewing the configuration, I knew if must be something to do with my network - how I connected the NAS to the network. The problem was resolved by changing the network cable(s) and the switch/router. Now the transfer rate is fast, very fast!

Software: I've read some reviews where people complain about the interface and/or functionality. Is it the best? Probably not! Is it easy to set up and use, and does it do the job? Definitely! One important criteria for me was the ability to use Apple's TimeMachine without having to jump through hoops. All I can say it that it works right out of the box - period! There is also software to do real-time backup of specified folders, for example your Documents, and you can define the number of versions to retain. I have not implemented this yet, but may in the future. If you are familiar with a product called Genie Timeline, then you should be happy with this functionality.

I would definitely recommend the WD My Cloud to anyone looking for a NAS that provides a reliable storage solution with room for growth at a reasonable price.

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Misty's mama

What I paid a lot of money for is not working properly.

Reviewed in Canada on November 2, 2020

Verified Purchase

The item was not shipped as displayed. Only 2 of the 4 ports have a NAS Hard Drive. Port 1 start out with blue underneath but once it appears to be fully loaded it becomes red underneath. Port 2 sets up fine and stays blue underneath. Ports 3 and 4 are empty and did not come with WD Red Hard Drive. A message appears to say that port 1 is degraded. Capacity is identified as 3.90 TB Free. The message says the Drive Status for port 2 is healthy. I have been able to set up a WD MY CLOUD account on the internet.

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EMH

Excelente producto

Reviewed in Mexico on December 2, 2016

Verified Purchase

Llego antes de lo estimado y bien empaquetado.

El equipo funciona sin problemas y es muy sencillo de configurar y administrar, aunque requiere accesos a internet para poderlo configurar de manera local.

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Reviewed in Canada on March 26, 2019

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Très bon service et un super produits

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Digital Storage Capacity	8 TB
Hard Disk Interface	Raid
Connectivity Technology	Ethernet
Brand	WD
Special Feature	Portable
Hard Disk Form Factor	3.5 Inches
Hard Disk Description	Desktop, 4x2TB
Compatible Devices	PC; Mac
Installation Type	External Hard Drive
Color	Black

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