My cloud home internal transfer unbearably slow

[tekram]

Sometimes when you don’t know the capability of a device and started doing something that ended up taking too long, the easiest path may be to save what you can in a backup such as a USB drive if one is available, then reset the device and then restore all data using the USB. Here is the procedure for resetting the My Cloud Home.

Reset Factory MyCloudHome. Why is this procedure taking so long?

on the my cloud home a 40 sec reset should only demote the device owner. to erase data you need to use the 60 sec reset. when erasing large amounts of data it will take a while but 75 hours seems a bit excessive. Is the LED fast blinking or slow blinking? there could be different things going on depending on the LED behavior. It looks like a system erase will not occur if there is no active internet connection and if the LED is blinking fast that means there is no active internet connection. h…