Performant NAS for small businesses.

The review relates to WD My Cloud Business DL2100 Series NAS system with 8TB.
Well packed the NAS came with me. Thanks to the two pre-installed WD Red hard drives (depending 4TB), the device has a fairly high weight.
>> The WD Red drives are designed specifically for NAS systems and their integrated firmware to provide improved data security and stable operation.
Excited I was now on the initial setup. Although I am not unfamiliar with IT systems, a NAS but I have not yet set up.
First a fright. The documentation is limited to a small leaflet is only shown on the how the NAS is wired. It is also found a web address that leads to online-based device.
So Ethernet cable to the router and power.
The volume in operation is very low. Only at start-up or while accessing the hard disk, the system can be heard clearly. At idle, you have been very close approach to listen to the NAS. In this respect, a positioning on the desktop (or in the living room) is nothing to prevent.

Because the NAS is already preconfigured in large parts, the commissioning designed amazingly simple. Through a streamlined and very simple web interface can be - without much prior knowledge - to set up and configure the NAS. All features offered by the Business Series DL2100 to use, but a more intensive examination of the matter is necessary. But the basics required for a Home are set up quickly and easily.
The home page of the web interface provides at a glance the available capacity, the "health" of the drives, the current firmware version, network activity, the Clouds and apps used and the established users.

The NAS is aimed at the business series of self-employed and small companies, especially those that have to process a very high volume of data, such as photographers or graphic artists.
Accordingly, Western Digital equips the Business Series of with powerful CPU and plenty of RAM. Bie the DL2100 series is Intel Atom C2350 1.7 GHz dual-core and 1GB of memory, but which can be extended up to 5 GB.
>> The WD My Cloud operating system for access and management system based on Linux and is 64bit.

The performance I find very good. In about 20 seconds I can paddle a about 1GB large images folder on the NAS. This corresponds to a write rate of about 60 MB / s.
Preconfigured is a Raid 1 (RAID 1 is the capacity in half. One half of the capacity is used to store the data, the other for one of them a copy. If a drive fails, the data is still safe because they are duplicated.)
It is also possible Raid 0, which indeed can increase the access times, but from the safety aspect - is not recommended - in my opinion.
RAID 5 or 10 are possible only with the larger DL4100.

Very good I think also the possibility that data with AES 256-bit encrypted (although I have not yet been applied).
For backups provides the WD SmartWare Software WD Pro (must be downloaded - for buyers of the NAS it's free) available, quite easy to plan with the backups, and should be carried out. Mac users can do this with Apple Time Machine make (supported).

Of interest to business users is the built-in iSCSI support, and support for Microsoft Active Directory.
Two NICs (Network Interface Card) provide protection during network outages, two current connections during power outages (with only one power cord is included).
But there are many more features - like integrated FTP server, P2P server and HTTP download server, the integration of third-party apps such as WordPress or Joomla !, DFS, Jumbo Frames - but beyond the scope of this Rezi would.

Overall, a great device, in very good workmanship. Quiet and performant, it does its job. His true strengths can the NAS but show only the professional use. For smaller companies, highly recommended, only partly for private users.