Or one can look at the p n number on the bottom of the single bay my cloud unit enclosure or the product box packaging.
My cloud mirror gen 2 vs gen 1.
Go to settings firmware update.
Share access for specific users randomly change and what is the different between firmware version 2 x and version 04 x.
My cloud mirror is a marvel armada 370 soc with 1 2 ghz my cloud mirror gen 2 is marvel armada 385 1 3 ghz dualcore soc.
Wd ships the units by default with the wd red drives in raid 1 mirror.
Also don t know if there is a difference between the nic or other hardware used between the two versions that might cause the difference in.
Thank you very much.
Article number of my cloud mirror gen 2 is.
If the single bay my cloud is running firmware 3 x or 4 x it is a first generation my cloud unit.
Wdbwvz0040jwt again 4 tb version differences between my cloud mirror 8tb gen 1 and gen 2.
If the single bay my cloud is running firmware 2 x it is a second generation my cloud unit.
Teishu april 27 2016 3 17pm 2.
Gen 1 s typically have a wd red hard drive 5400 rpm class sata 6 gb s 64mb within the unit.
Peter jakab december 22 2017 7 20pm 3.
That s a lot less memory than the 2gb that the buffalo terastation 5200dn and the netgear readynas 202.
The wd my cloud mirror gen 2 can take up to 2 drives.
However the gen 2 also is available in a 370 6 tb version 2 x 3 tb and a 410 8 tb version 2 x 4.
Updating the firmware on your my cloud mirror gen2.
Our review unit was the 310 4 tb model.
Users can opt for either jbod raid 0 or raid 1 configurations.
Open the my cloud mirror gen2 dashboard ui.
Is it a gen1 or gen2.
Download the firmware to your desktop.
Don t know if there is a difference between the type s of hard drive used in the gen 2 my cloud s.
Mycloud 4 and mycloud 2.
Is there any notable difference between running plex or the wd software running on gen 1 vs gen 2.
I now know that the gen2 i bought is running busybox not debian which seems to severely limit any modifications such as running additional.
Unzip the file and you will find the actual firmware in this format.
If the p n ends with 00 it is.
My cloud bwvz 2 xx xx bin save this to your desktop.
The my cloud mirror gen 2 has a 1 33ghz arm cortex a9 dual core processor and 512mb of ram.
My cloud gen 2 vs gen 1.
The new gen 2 has a different processor a white case and the soho my cloud feature set.