I would imagine BYOD is restricted to the EX2 series or DL2 series.
The Mirror is meant for folks who just want an appliance to use and not mess with changing disks etc. Any RAID failure or faulty disks - back it goes to WD for warranty repairs - I don't even think the Mirror customers are going to attempt to rebuild the RAID. It is just a different market.
I hope they have fixed the FW problem with image thumbnails creation getting 100% CPU power and not making the drive work for all the database creation period (which may be days if the uploaded archive are huge). I was looking for buying one of those Mirror NAS, but that problem, together to the fact that accessing the NAS through SSH to stop and start services unvalidated the guarantee, made me reconsider the purchase. Let's see how these new versions are. And their price here in EMEA. A similarly configured Synology NAS (DS215J) would cost me only few dollars more.
In the US I see the My Cloud Mirror 4TB (2 x 2TB drives) is about $240 right now, while a single 2TB WD Red is $90. So it's just $60 more than the two drives alone for the NAS. I don't see a Synology beating that.
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Chillin1248 - Tuesday, September 1, 2015 - link
Are we going to see empty-bay units (Bring Your Own Hard-Drive) of the Mirror series? Also, do they support 8TB hard drives? (2x 8TB = 16TB total).ganeshts - Tuesday, September 1, 2015 - link
I would imagine BYOD is restricted to the EX2 series or DL2 series.The Mirror is meant for folks who just want an appliance to use and not mess with changing disks etc. Any RAID failure or faulty disks - back it goes to WD for warranty repairs - I don't even think the Mirror customers are going to attempt to rebuild the RAID. It is just a different market.
Flunk - Tuesday, September 1, 2015 - link
Considering who makes them, probably not.Venya - Wednesday, September 2, 2015 - link
2x 8TB = 8TB (because of RAID1 mirroring)CiccioB - Wednesday, September 2, 2015 - link
Still 512MB? Mmmmmm...I hope they have fixed the FW problem with image thumbnails creation getting 100% CPU power and not making the drive work for all the database creation period (which may be days if the uploaded archive are huge).
I was looking for buying one of those Mirror NAS, but that problem, together to the fact that accessing the NAS through SSH to stop and start services unvalidated the guarantee, made me reconsider the purchase.
Let's see how these new versions are. And their price here in EMEA. A similarly configured Synology NAS (DS215J) would cost me only few dollars more.
mikato - Saturday, November 14, 2015 - link
In the US I see the My Cloud Mirror 4TB (2 x 2TB drives) is about $240 right now, while a single 2TB WD Red is $90. So it's just $60 more than the two drives alone for the NAS. I don't see a Synology beating that.