New Release - My Book Live Firmware Version 02.32.05-044 (9/5/12)

WD Legacy Products My Book Live
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WD is happy to announce the latest firmware update for the My Book Live. For information about the firmware update, please check out the release notes.

 

Important update (9/20/12): WD released the My Book Live firmware patch 2.32.05-144, today. This release contains specific fixes for devices running firmware version 2.32.05-044

 

You can continue posting your experiences in this thread starting at the link below.

 

http://community.wdc.com/t5/My-Book-Live/New-Release-My-Book-Live-Firmware-Version-02-32-05-044-9-5-12/m-p/474286/highlight/false#M14563

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I’ll be the first to take the plunge on my test MyBookLive… Wil report back

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Upgrade successfully completed in under 10 minutes. I chose to download the file from the web and click upgrade from file in the MyBookLive UI. So far so good!

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Anybody upgrading do me a favor and test your speeds with a good size 4-5 gig file to and from your MyBookLive before you do the upgrade and then again after. It may be bad memory on my part but I think my speeds are down about 4-5 MB/s after the upgrade.

I thought I used to get 40MB/s on 02.11.09-053

Now I get 35MB/s  02.32.05-044

TIA

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With the new release, the Backup page is no more available on the dashboard. So how can I delete an unwanted backup?

TimeMachineBackup and SmartWare shares can now be seen on the Shares page. I can delete the whole share but not a single backup as before (with the previous release).

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I’m going to test it over here, also.  transfer rates before and after. 

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Thanks Bill!

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Great, new firmware with so many resolved issues. It really took so long.

Hope this time WD tested it properly so that I can use my My Book Live finally.

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Hi.

Got a brand new My Book Live yesterday. After the firmware update I cannot make new shares (error code 33166)

or add new users: (error code 32102).

I also cannot access the Tools tab (#ui-tabs-2278) in the UI which makes it impossible for a factory reset. When i try to access it just says “please wait” forever…

 

Is there another way to reset the system? 

This is really annoying behavior from a 2 day old product.

Hope this can be solved…

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Transfer rate before:   20 Mbyte / second averages.

Transfer rate after:  25 Mbyte / second averages.

Wow.  For me it’s faster;

But all I did was copy a 12 Gig MKV file and watch my system performance graph…  none too scientific…

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Tony, glad to hear you got a nice bump in speed. My tests were none to scientific either as I just use an average from what Windows 7 shows on the transfer bar. I can say without a doubt that my 3TB Mybooklive that is still running 02.11.09-053 is 5-10 MB/sec faster on transfers using the same method and file

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Just thought I give my upgrade experience.  Much like the past few upgrades which went smoothly.  After a few balky upgrades early on using the live online download of the update, I have exclusively downloaded the update manually and run it from Dashboard.

Status bar went to 5% at about 45 seconds, 10% at about 1 minute, then 50% at 3 minutes.  Got to 70% at about 4.5 minutes and 90% at 5.5 minutes.  At 6 minutes, 20 seconds it started to reboot.  At 7 minutes 40 seconds it started to initialize the device.  At 9 minutes it refreshed the dashboard screen and it was back up and running.

the HumpMan

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After I updated I got about the same transfer rate at 30 MBs per second.  I did notice that the UI was much quicker.

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Update done and succesful … :smileyvery-happy:

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Just an FYI - We updated the Samba stack to SMB2. THis was done in preparation for the upcoming Windows 8 Launch. There were requirements to support features of Windows 8 that required the upgrade to SMB2. This may be some of the reason why you are seeing performance gains.

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@WDTony Could it also account for some performance loss?
@Bill_S Yes I did notice the UI was quicker as well :slight_smile:

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We have not seen any performance loss in our testing, so maybe there is something else going on - maybe the server is busy with something else?

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First graph is 1gb file from computer to 3TB MBL on 02.11.09-053

Second graph is same file from computer to 1TB MBL on 02.32.05-044

Nothing running in the background on the 1TB MBL…All media features turned off… Both MBL connected to the same router… Tried new cat5e cable same results

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Might rollback my 1TB MBL to 02.11.09-053 later tonight to see if it makes a difference

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Upgrade seemed to go smoothly, but the UI timed-out waiting for my 2 TB MBL to come back up.  I waited 15 minutes, still nothing.  FInally unplugged ethernet, waited, plugged it back in.  I now seem to have an “Initializing” on my UI.  The drive “feels” like it is reformatting, which will be kind of disappointing because I have a lot of data on it that took a long time to put there…

Anybody have any suggestions for how long I should wait for “Initializing Device, please wait” to complete?