The My Cloud Pro Series 4TB PR2100 2-Bay NAS Server from WD comes built with two 2TB hard drives and a video transcoding engine to deliver 4K media content as well as files to networked devices. The My Cloud PR2100 provides you with a total storage pool of 4TB and a variety of downloadable apps to create a streaming HD media server with Plex, edit and share content with cloud services, and set up a surveillance system with Milestone Arcus. WD has armed this NAS server with a 1.6 GHz Intel Pentium N3710 Quad-Core processor, along with 4GB of DDR3L RAM to manage your data and configure the drives in a RAID 0, 1, or JBOD array.
This NAS server is outfitted with two Gigabit Ethernet ports and dual power ports to provide continuous access to your files, photos, and other content. Other notable ports included with the My Cloud PR2100 are two USB 3.0 Type-A ports that allow you to share devices or back up to external storage drives. Aside from ports, it comes with SmartWare Pro software and supports Time Machine for a quick and effective solution to create a continuous, automatic backup system. Furthermore, password protection and AES 256-bit volume encryption are on board to protect sensitive files.
Note: The My Cloud PR2100 includes a complimentary 2-month membership to the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan, which includes Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC, Photoshop CC, 20GB of cloud storage, and more. This membership is redeemable during product registration. An Adobe ID and network connection are required. This offer is only available in countries where Adobe Creative Cloud is available and is limited to one per new Adobe user account. It must be redeemed by July 31, 2020 while activation code supplies last.
Marvin Mertz (verified owner) –
Great product. Bought his to replace external drives, one of which fell and got damaged. This product was easy to setup and works really well. The great thing is, it can be access from any computer at home or even remotely. Would strongly recommend. One recommendation is to get a minimum of two 4TB drive and organize as raid 1
Domenico Hane (verified owner) –
The product is way beyond my expectations. I had the original mycloud server for almost 10 years and no issues
Kyra Hettinger (verified owner) –
I had minimal issues in setup and the process is fairly straightforward. The USB transfer speed is a step down from my older drive, but it was not a network drive and for the price, this is a reasonable compromise. The drives do make an odd moo sound as they spin down, but both behave identically and some internet research led me to accept this is normal behavior for these drives.
Aniyah Connelly (verified owner) –
bandh comes thru great price and top notch product
Shemar Dare (verified owner) –
My 6 year old first generation WD NAS server was getting old enough that I took it out of primary file service for a small business before it failed. I know my way around the WD software so the transition was effortless. Not quite plug and play considering how one needs to configure a multi computer NAS RAID array. But easy enough. It came preconfigured RAID 1. After a few minutes creating folders, users and permissions I was ready to start the file transfers. It didn’t take long to realize how much quicker it is than the original model. Now after using it for a few weeks, the speed upgrade is noticeable every day. If you are looking for a small business file server, this does the job nicely.
Isai Kub (verified owner) –
Easy to set up. No issues whatsoever. Was worried about shipping but WD packaged it as if it was their own baby and I appreciate that!
Caroline Schimmel (verified owner) –
The setup was not as easy as the minimal documentation that came with it suggested it would be. And the availability of technical support, when you are confounded by a setup or other issue, is not what it should be. But after futzing off and on over a couple of days, I now have all setup as I hoped. And so now my PR2100 sits (very) quietly in a corner and my and my parter’s Macs are backed up, wirelessly, in the background, to a device that so far I feel confident I can rely upon (including with Raid 1 redundancy).
Veda Torphy (verified owner) –
If you do not have a solid or strong wifi connection good look. THIS IS THE BEST NAS SERVER we have had. But if you wifi cuts god luck!