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

My tweaks compilation, with much thanks to those who posted instructions, and some new useless services discovered after some research.

Firmware

v03.04.01-230

More useless services disabled for those who only need Samba and LAN. (no cloud or USB).  Renaming the service from S### to K### in /etc/rc2.d is the easiest way, I’ve discovered.  No messing about with CHMOD or stopping services manually.

Disable IPV6

You can disable it from /etc/sysctl.conf with these lines:

net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6=1

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1

net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1

net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6=1