WD My Cloud - 2.x firmware - what else has changed ....?

Legacy Products My Cloud OS 3
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Sadly my old 2Tb My Cloud died - but WD did an RMA and replaced it (thanks for the support!).

The replacement runs the 2.x firmware instead of the 4.x one I had previously and I can see it has 512Mb of RAM and I’m fairly sure the old one had 256Mb. What else has changed - CPU different? It seems a little faster. Although that could be because I haven’t restored much.

Is it an arm cpu?

I also notice that the shutdown has vanished from the GUI. And indeed there is no shutdown in /sbin.

I’ve found a halt in /usr/sbin … also the last 4.x firmware seemed quite similar to debian. I’m not really sure what this is.

Interesting.

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If you look at the files in /bin and /sbin you will see that most are symbolic links to a program called busybox. Busybox is a program that contains the code for these utilities. It takes up less space. Not sure which version of Debian is running 4k or 64k.

RAC

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Search the forums for ‘Gen2’.

Plenty of information to be found.

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Many thanks. I’d searched for ‘gen 2’ should have left the space out!