MyCloud Extremely Slow

[cpt_paranoia]

Try these threads:

Before you pack up your WD and return it, let's talk about Copying Speeds!

This post has taken almost 6 hours to type up (I began about 5pm and finishing about 11pm) and my main reason for doing this isn’t thatI’m a staff of WD but I wouldn’t  hesitate to take any under the table money if offered, is that after having bought my two WD Cloud and MyBook, I really wanted to share my love for the devices by giving back to the forums. Currently the two drives are sitting on the bookshelf with Book Covers ( yeah they look like books), probably sleeping since I haven’t acces…

Before you RMA your Device ... let's talk about your problems!

> This post is meant to help you as a user from another user and it needs feedback and discussion on whether it works for you. I’ll be modifying this post from time to time to make any corrections. So let me hear from you. I’ve post up many times on how extremely happy that I am with my Cloud Purchase (thanks to @Bill_S for sponsoring this endorsement with a replacement 6TB My Cloud and My Book for my 4TB versions ) and there are a lot of users that echoes those sentiments. …

I’m about to return the MyCloud 3TB because the transfer speeds I get are extremely slow (40GB in about 20h when copying a PhotoLibrary)

What method are you using to copy? Finder? WD MyCloud desktop app? Other?