Comparison of Western Digital My Cloud EX2100 and Seagate NAS 4-Bay

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	2015	2014
Class	Small office / Home office	Small office / Home office
Body
Dimensions	108 x 216 x 147 mm	170 x 174 x 218 mm
Weight	2.27 kg	2.45 kg
Disks
Disk bays	2 x 3.5" SATA III	4 x 3.5" SATA II
RAID	JBOD RAID0 RAID1	JBOD RAID0 RAID1 RAID10 RAID5 RAID6
SSD support	no	no
Network
LAN ports	2 x Gigabit Ethernet	2 x Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless	no	no
Protocols	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP ISCSI SFTP WEBDAV	AFP CIFS/SMB FTP HTTP ISCSI NFS
P2P support	BitTorrent eMule	no
Media server	DLNA UPnP iTunes	DLNA UPnP iTunes
Cloud backup	Amazon S3 Dropbox ElephantDrive	Amazon S3 Box
Connectivity
USB ports	2 x USB 3.0	2 x USB 3.0
eSATA ports	no	no
System
CPU	Marvell Armada 385 88F6820 dual-core @ 1.3 GHz	Marvell Armada 370 88F6707 @ 1.2 GHz
RAM	1 GB DDR3	512 MB
Flash
Operating system	WD My Cloud OS	Seagate NAS OS 4
Alternative OS
Power
Power supply	12 V / 4 A	19 V / 4.8 A
Consuption		32 W / 13 W
Fans	1 x 70 mm	1 x 140 mm
Noise level		22 - 32 dB(A)
Features
Specials	Failover and link aggregation	Failover and link aggregation
Administration
Default IP	DHCP	DHCP
Default username	admin
Default password	[blank]

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