WD My Cloud EX4

IT-ADMIN

@scottalanmiller before you recommend me to consider ReadyNAS and Synology, is WD good also ??

scottalanmiller

@scottalanmiller before you recommend me to consider ReadyNAS and Synology, is WD good also ??

WD is okay. ReadyNAS and Synology are the best in the category. Nothing wrong with the WD, but it's a lower end device generally. But your needs are extremely basic. So nothing wrong with it.

scottalanmiller

@BRRABill said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Wow, a whole 512MB of RAM, huh?

That's also what the Synology DS214 I was looking at has.

Only two drives, so no parity overhead, and they sure don't brag about 512 MB

IT-ADMIN

@scottalanmiller said:

@IT-ADMIN said:

@scottalanmiller before you recommend me to consider ReadyNAS and Synology, is WD good also ??

WD is okay. ReadyNAS and Synology are the best in the category. Nothing wrong with the WD, but it's a lower end device generally. But your needs are extremely basic. So nothing wrong with it.

Ok, thank you very much

scottalanmiller

Drobo, for example, would be just fine here too.

BRRABill

@scottalanmiller said:

Only two drives, so no parity overhead, and they sure don't brag about 512 MB

I mean how much could it cost to go to 1GB for them?

Reid Cooper

@BRRABill Can't be more than $2!! Right? Memory at that size is so freaking cheap!! Seems like 2GB would be a more logical minimum size.

MattSpeller

@Reid-Cooper said:

@BRRABill Can't be more than $2!! Right? Memory at that size is so freaking cheap!! Seems like 2GB would be a more logical minimum size.

$2 multiplied by 500,000 units - not going to happen lol

Reid Cooper

@MattSpeller said:

@Reid-Cooper said:

@BRRABill Can't be more than $2!! Right? Memory at that size is so freaking cheap!! Seems like 2GB would be a more logical minimum size.

$2 multiplied by 500,000 units - not going to happen lol

You can easily charge $3 for that kind of upgrade, though!!

MattSpeller

@Reid-Cooper said:

@MattSpeller said:

@Reid-Cooper said:

@BRRABill Can't be more than $2!! Right? Memory at that size is so freaking cheap!! Seems like 2GB would be a more logical minimum size.

$2 multiplied by 500,000 units - not going to happen lol

You can easily charge $3 for that kind of upgrade, though!!

Then how do you upgrade them to the WD My Cloud EX5?