Comparison of Buffalo LinkStation 220 and Western Digital My Cloud EX4100

The side-by-side comparison of the devices’ specifications. The comparison table below makes it easier to choose the most fitting NAS.

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Launch	2014	2015
Class	Small office / Home office	Small office / Home office
Body
Dimensions	205 x 87 x 128 mm	170 x 232 x 192 mm
Weight	2.5 kg	3.63 kg
Disks
Disk bays	2 x 3.5" SATA II	4 x 3.5" SATA III
RAID	no	JBOD RAID0 RAID1 RAID10 RAID5
SSD support	no	no
Network
LAN ports	1 x Gigabit Ethernet	2 x Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless	no	no
Protocols	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP HTTP	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP ISCSI SFTP WEBDAV
P2P support	BitTorrent	BitTorrent eMule
Media server	DLNA UPnP iTunes	DLNA UPnP iTunes
Cloud backup	no	Amazon S3 Dropbox ElephantDrive
Connectivity
USB ports	1 x USB 2.0	3 x USB 3.0
eSATA ports	no	no
System
CPU	Marvell Armada 370 88F6707 @ 800 MHz	Marvell Armada 388 88F6828 dual-core @ 1.6 GHz
RAM	256 MB	2 GB DDR3
Flash
Operating system	Buffalo	WD My Cloud OS
Alternative OS
Power
Power supply	12 V / 4 A	19 V / 6.32 A
Consuption
Fans	1 x 60 mm	1 x 120 mm
Noise level
Features
Specials		LCD Panel Failover and link aggregation Dual power ports
Administration
Default IP	DHCP	DHCP
Default username	admin	admin
Default password	password	[blank]

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