

In my trial, these ports have enough juice to power bus-powered portable drives, such as the WD My Passport. The network port is to connect the server to a home network, and the USB ports are to host external hard drives to be either the backup destination of the server or to expand the server's storage space. On the back the server comes with a Gigabit network port and two USB 3.0 ports. On the front, the server comes with a few small LED lights that show the status of the power and two internal drives. WD says it will honor the three-year warranty even when you use non-WD hard drives. The server works with all standard 3.5-inch internal hard drives from any vendors.

It has top-facing drive bays that you can access by pressing on the front part of its top and then replace or install internal drives in less than a minute. Taking the shape of a thick book in stand up position, the My Cloud EX2 shares the same design and physical shape of WD's My Book Studio desktop external hard drive. Design: Dual-bay with tool-less serviceability
