WD has certainly made configuration and management of the DX4200 easy to use even if you’re not a Windows expert. It also displays device information, drive status, and the overall health of the system. The DX4200 is also incredibly easy to manage with WD StorCentral, offering users powerful, yet easy-to-use, management tools for the WD device. In addition, Microsoft’s server manager provides a single view of all servers joined to the domain within the active directory environment. As a result, it can integrate seamlessly with SMB applications and environments, including workgroups, active directory and most other server environments. One of the more useful aspects of the DX4200 is that it is Windows-based. As far as its build goes, the two Sentinels look virtually the same except that the new version now has a locking mechanism (key hole) on the bay-door and is slightly wider at 6.69in compared to 6.30in. The DX4200 also offers an option for redundant system drives. WD has also upped the RAM to 4GB (expandable to 16GB) and is equipped with four USB 3.0 ports (compared to two available ports in the DX4000). This is headlined by an Intel Atom C2338 1.7GHz dual core processor vs. The WD Sentinel DX4200 offers a few notable upgrades compared to its predecessor (the DX4000).
WD also offers a variety of warranty and support options to make sure SMBs worry less about their storage and more about business operations. WD has also pulled over a unique feature from their micro-server line, offering a dedicated boot drive for the system which makes going from box to production faster, allows for safer system updates down the road (by reducing data disruptions), and storage capacity isn’t lost to the OS. Inside the 4-bay enclosure are WD Se enterprise SSDs that are designed for high-end NAS work and can offer capacities up to 16TB raw. Key updates include a modern OS, Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Workgroup, and a more powerful Intel Atom processor.
The DX4200 builds on the DX4000 that was released about three years ago. The WD Sentinel DX4200 Storage Server is the company’s latest effort to bring SMBs storage that’s both easy to use and simple to manage.
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