Drive sleeps and wakes up constantly

[Bennor]

@Giolovin

Good news for those who stopped hoping and stopped plugging in their WD My Cloud in their socket. There has been an update ! My prayers from the 17th of Nov 2017 have been answered! Hallelujah!!!

Firmware Release 04.05.00-320 (11/28/2017)

Release Notes
What’s new!
Resolved SMB server (samba) security vulnerability (CVE-2017-7494) - Malicious clients can upload and cause the SMB server to execute a shared library from a writable share.
Improved Cloud Access connectivity from the device.
Resolved issue of MyCloud device waking up from standby despite no activity.

I hope that’s sarcasm.

We have another thread discussing the sleep issues even with the very latest firmware for the first gen v4.x My Cloud’s. No real solid solution. Some report success with certain services disbled. Others like myself still have a My Cloud that wakes up constantly.

STILL NOT SLEEPING! - and I GIVE UP!

I am SO frustrated. I’ve owned my MyCloud for over a year now and am STILL dealing with non-sleep issues. I have followed as much advice as I can that I’ve been able to find in these scattered threads and from WDs own advice, but I’m STILL having the no sleep problem. Come on WD - take this problem seriously. Next time I need to upgrade I’ll be looking at other providers. There should at the very least by some sort of dashboard item that lets me see what’s keeping my device “busy” and spinni…