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Pros & Cons
Pros
I love the management interface, it's very easy to use and navigate around. It is relevant that i have been administering unix and linux systems for thirty years.
I chalk this up to a learning experience, and now that i've found this, it works well for me. Well built and sturdy device. Photography is my hobby.
For clients i use the following; roku 4 on my main tv hardwired (cat5e) to a netgear pro-safe gs105e connecting to my router. The cpu isn't quite beefy enough to transcode 4k video files at real-time speed, but for any other video task it works quite ... Read More
I say it's noticeable, but that's me being very picky. It runs considerable cooler------case felt like room temperature after 6 hours of running.
Transfer speed through ethernet is good, with speeds nearing 100 mbs for many transfers. Performs well for the most part but it's a bit slow at times on read operations. Much faster than the older unit when copying files over ethernet.
Cons
There are so many better options out there now even if you want it to run plex hw transcoing. The admin web interface is clunky, slow and way too much window dressing. Be warned, there are certain isps and routers - mine is verizon fios using one of t... Read More
Highlights
Quality
The pr2100 works great and with plex i am able to record watch live tv with my antenna and hd homerun
I hired a consultant to assist me to help with the setup and now the drive works as intended in windows 10 and on my desktop wi... Read More
I can even limit what each device can do with the files
I wish i would have opted for a bigger drive as even with the two 2tb drives running them in raid 1 mode only gives you 2 tb not 4tb
Price
In spite of the cost i highly recommend these semiprofessional raid drives for anyone needing to store large amounts of data in... Read More
Shipping
No issues with setup its fast and has a bunch of different apps available
It works well fast and silent after it boots up
I had to pay for shipping back to wd
Competitiveness
Bought this to replace an older mybook unit that i had for years
Works greati have two 4tb wd red 5400 rpm drives arranged in a 0 raid array
I even connected a usb hub which shares the content of two 512gb usb sticks
I only have 2x 2tb wd red drives installed setup as raid 1
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- This product had a total of 293 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 6 2023.
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In 2015 i bought a lenovo thinkserver
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I thought at the time that was a lot
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Recently the disks started to fill up
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To fix that problem i bought a western digital my cloud 2100 diskless networkattached server
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Note that this is not the same as backup
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In my experience the main use of backups is when you discover that you just stupidly deleted that presentation youve been working on for two months
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The raid1 redundancy doesnt help with that it just saves you from hardware failures
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You cant really use one for programming etc
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