Plex Media Server Added to WD's My Cloud NAS Series

WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) company, and a world leader in storage solutions is expanding its apps offerings by introducing Plex®, an entertainment app that can now be downloaded to and deployed on the My Cloud® NAS series. Plex organizes video, music and photos from personal media libraries and streams them to smart TVs, streaming boxes and mobile devices.

"WD is committed to a robust application ecosystem for our customers and Plex is a key example of our vision,” said Sven Rathjen, vice president & general manager, WD networked content solutions. “With today’s addition of the Plex app, the My Cloud NAS series will now be a one-stop shop to not only store and protect your most precious content, but to organize and stream that content to all your devices as well.”

Features

     WD is committed to furthering its apps capabilities on its My Cloud product line up. The series of products will now be equipped with an array of Plex features, including:

• Stream supported file formats directly from your personal My Cloud (models: My Cloud Mirror, 

        My Cloud EX2/EX4, My Cloud EX2100/EX4100 and My Cloud DL2100/4100) to any Plex app

• World class DLNA support built right in to the app

• Effortlessly sharing media amongst family and friends

• One simple interface to organize all of your media

For updates on the continued expansion of app offerings on the My Cloud family of products, visit www.wd.com. 

About Plex

Plex organizes all of your video, movie, TV show, music, and photo collections so you can stream them to all of your screens. Plex allows you to stream your media to your devices, such as your Mac, PC, smartphone, tablet, Xbox, PlayStation, Smart TV, Roku, Chromecast, and soon TiVo. Whether it’s your movie and TV collection, or your music library, Plex makes your media beautiful by automatically adding movie posters, plot summaries, cover art, and descriptions. Plex also allows you to share your home video, photo, music, and movie collections with your friends and family. For more information, visit https://plex.tv, or follow at @plexapp on Twitter or https://www.facebook.com/plexapp. 

About WD

WD, a Western Digital company, is a long-time innovator and storage industry leader. As a storage technology pacesetter, the company produces reliable, high-performance hard disk drives and solid state drives. These drives are deployed by OEMs and integrators in desktop and mobile computers, enterprise computing systems, embedded systems and consumer electronics applications, as well as by the company in providing its own storage products. WD’s leading storage devices and systems, networking products, media players and software solutions empower people around the world to easily save, store, protect, share and experience their content on multiple devices. WD was established in 1970 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wd.com.

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External storage devices are part of a user’s data backup ecosystem. WD recommends users maintain multiple copies of their most important data on different online and offline platforms. 

Apps, services, and other features are subject to change based on your location, software version, device model, and third party service providers.

As used for storage capacity, one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. 

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WD Adds High Performance NAS Solutions to My Cloud Line

Designed for Creative Professionals,Prosumers and Small Businesses, the Four New My CloudNAS Solutions Round Out a FullPortfolio of Powerful NAS Products Built With the My Cloud OS and WD Red® Drives

WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) companyand a world leader in connected storage solutions, today expanded its suite ofnetwork attached storage (NAS) solutions with four new products that address the increasing demandsfor content storage, management,protection and streaming amongprosumers,creative professionals and small businesses. 

The My Cloud Expert Series includes My Cloud EX2100 (two-bay) and My Cloud EX4100 (four-bay) high-performance NAS systems designed from the ground up for creative professionals and prosumers that need to reliably save, share, back up, stream and manage large amounts of digital data. Powered by the latest version of the dual-core Marvell ARMADA™ processor, these two new additions to the Expert Series offer top of theirclass read/write speeds for simultaneous, high-performance HD media streaming with up to 24 TB of storage capacity .

The new My Cloud Business Series includes My CloudDL2100 (two-bay) and My Cloud DL4100 (four-bay)high-performance NAS systems built to provide the reliability, security and scalability small business customers need.Powered by Intel®Atom™ dual-core processors with up to 24TB  of storage capacity, the My Cloud Business Series runs on the acclaimed Linux-based WD My Cloud operating software (OS).

     “As the market leader in the single-bay personal cloud category with our award winning My Cloud platform, as well as in the NAS hard disk drive (HDD) category with our WD Red™ line, WD understands that customers need more power and more choice in NAS systems,” said Jim Welsh, executive vice president, WD Content Solutions Business and Worldwide Sales. “We are very excited about our new My Cloud Expert Series and My Cloud Business SeriesNAS products that offer the performance, ease of use,reliability and My Cloud OS that customers want from WD.”

My Cloud Expert Series

For photographers, videographers, graphic designers and other creative professionals adapting to ever increasing file sizes, from RAW images and 4K video footage, the newMy Cloud Expert Series products include the latest and fastest dual-core Marvell ARMADA 385 and 388 processors for high-performancemedia streaming, provide up to 24TB of storage and the ability to keep files safe, secure and accessible from anywhere. The robust data management and security features let customers select their preferred methods for managing, sharing and protecting their most important movies, photos, music and digital files.

The included WD Red drives can be configured using multiple RAID options (model dependent) including RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 JBOD and spanning modes. Customers can use their My Cloud Expert Series products to centralize and back up all of their computers and notebooks with WD SmartWare™ Pro software for PC users, and with the Apple® Time Machine® backup software for Mac users.

My Cloud Expert Series products can alsoserve as a digital entertainment hub, seamlessly streaming movies and music to any DLNA®/UPnP® certified multimedia devicesuch as gaming consoles, smart TVs and WD TV® Live™ media players. The Twonky, DLNA-certified media server and iTunes® server make for simple streaming of large movie and music libraries. 

Additionally, the integrated file server, FTP server, backup server and P2P download server provide advanced data serving options. Customers can also customize theirMy Cloud Expert series NAS, monitor system health, manage users and energy saving features with the My Cloud dashboard, as well as use a suite of third party apps, including aMule, Icecast, Transmission, DVBlink, SqueezeCenter and more.

My Cloud Business Series

The all new My Cloud Business Series solutions allow small businesses to centralize and protect their data in the workplace and provide employees with secure access to critical data from anywhere. Powered by the latest Intel Atom dual core processor, with RAM up to 2GB, and data storage capacity up to 24TB, small businesses have the performance and scalability, to meet their business needs.

Secure access, protection and backup of data for small businesses is critical.Offering AES 256-bit volume encryption and multiple RAID options(RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD and spanning modes), the My Cloud Business Series offers small businesses multiple options to secure and protect their data.Customers can also use their My Cloud Business Series products to back up all of their computers with WD SmartWare™ Pro software for PC users and Apple® Time Machine®support for Mac users.My Cloud Business Series products can also backup themselves, either to another My Cloud in a different location or to cloud services such as Amazon S3 and ElephantDrive. Users can also use the one-touch USB 3.0 copy button to automatically copy data from an external USB storage device onto the NAS.

The My Cloud Business Series products feature many business-ready capabilities including iSCSI target and initiator, replication and file synchronization, integrated FTP, WebDAV server, SSH Shell, and Microsoft Active Directory support. Additionally there are enterprise-class redundancies such as dual power supply ports with fail over, dual Gigabit Ethernet and UPS support. The My Cloud Business Series also provides memory expansion up to 6GB, and scalable storage through dual NICs or USB.

My Cloud Business Series products are available inseveral capacity options.The My Cloud DL2100 (two-bay) is available diskless or with 4 TB, 8 TB or 12 TB capacities.The My Cloud DL4100 (four-bay) is available diskless or with 8 TB, 16 TB or 24 TB capacities. With Easy-Slide-Drive technology, My Cloud Business Series customers can easily install or hot-swap drives in seconds, without the need for a screwdriver, toolkit or trays. 

Anywhere Access

The award-winning WD My Cloud mobile app provides anywhere access to the entire My Cloud product family.With the WD My Cloud mobile app users can easilyview photos, stream video and share, save and manage files from anywhere on their iOS® and Android™ devices. The mobile app makes file sharing and collaborating simple, allowing customers to easily email files, share files as a link and print and open files with third party apps. The WD My Cloud mobile app also integrates major public cloud services so that customers can easily transfer files from their Dropbox™, OneDrive® and Google Drive™ public cloud accounts .

Pricing and Availability

My Cloud Expert Series and My Cloud Business Series products will be available in June through selected retailers and resellers and are distributed by Iontech, Inc. in the Philippines. 

MSRP for the My Cloud Expert Series EX2100  is Php13, 999 for diskless unit, Php24, 099  for 4TB, Php32, 399  for 8TB and Php41, 699  for 12TB. MSRP for the My Cloud Expert Series EX4100 is Php22, 699  for the diskless unit, Php42, 599  for 8 TB, Php 59, 999 for the 16TB and Php 81, 999 for the 24 TB.

While the MSRP for the My Cloud Business Series DL2100 is Php19, 999 for the diskless unit, Php29, 999 for 4 TB,Php36, 599 for 8 TB and Php48, 699 for 12 TB.MSRP for the My Cloud Business Series DL4100 is Php29, 999 for the diskless unit, Php47, 999 for the 8 TB, Php 65, 999 for the 16 TB and Php85, 999 for the 24 TB.

The WD My Cloud mobile app currently is available for download for free from the App Store and Google Play.

Warranty

The My Cloud Expert Series and Business Series products come with a 3-year limited warranty for the populated products and a 2-year limited warranty for the diskless products.Terms and conditions of WD’s limited warranty may be found at support.wdc.com/warranty.

Compatibility 

My CloudExpert Series and My Cloud Business Seriesare compatible with Windows® 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista®, Windows XP, Mac OS X Yosemite,Mavericks™, Mountain Lion™, Lion®, as well as DLNA®/UPnP® enabled devices. 

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WD® Scales Up Surveillance-Class Hard Drive Line

WD®, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and storage industry leader, today introduced WD Purple™ NV, a purpose-built line of 3.5-inch, high-capacity 4 TB and 6 TB hard drives for the greater demands of scalable network video recorder (NVR) surveillance systems. 

Compared with standard WD Purple drives, the new member of the WD’s surveillance video recording family of drives, WD Purple NV, is designed for larger-scale network surveillance systems utilizing higher hard drive bay counts and greater numbers of attached cameras, which demand increased storage capacity and durability. The new drives’ high capacities also enable long video retention periods for analysis and reference. WD Purple NV is also designed to withstand the demands of always-on digital NVR recording environments. It offers low power consumption and many advanced performance features typically reserved for higher end surveillance storage.

“The global video surveillance market is expanding with the increased accessibility to easy-to-use systems for small businesses and municipalities,” said Matt Rutledge, senior vice president of HDD marketing at WD. “WD optimized the WD Purple NV line of hard drives for NVR digital surveillance systems to improve high-definition video playback for high-camera-count applications. NVR surveillance systems can produce incredible amounts of data which makes the WD Purple NV hard drives a perfect solution for NVR systems needing high quality recording and playback and high capacity storage.” 

Features

WD Purple NV hard drives are equipped with an array of exclusive WD technologies, including:
AllFrame™ - When combined with ATA streaming support, AllFrame™ technology helps to reduce video footage loss with a proprietary cache policy management technology to help improve data flow and playback. WD Purple includes exclusive firmware upgrades that protect against video pixilation and interruptions within a surveillance system.
Premium Protection - Designed with tarnish-resistant components, WD Purple NV offers premium protection in harsh environments where surveillance systems can be installed.
Support for High-Camera-Count Systems - WD Purple NV hard drives are optimized to support systems utilizing high numbers of high-definition surveillance cameras, giving you the flexibility to upgrade and expand your security system in the future. Higher storage capacities also allow you to store the surveillance footage for a longer period of time, especially in situations when every second counts .
 

Availability

WD Purple NV 6 TB surveillance hard drives are shipping immediately to customers for qualification and are covered by a three-year limited warranty. WD Purple NV 4 TB hard drives will be available for qualification later this quarter. Both the 6 TB and 4 TB capacities will be shipping in volume within the quarter. More information about WD’s surveillance hard drives and limited warranty terms can be found on the company website at http://products.wd.com/wdpurple.

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