My MyCloud 3TB drive didn’t spin down when I first installed it and I attributed that to it indexing the files I had backed up. After that, I determined that it would indeed sleep, but only if the cloud feature was disabled.
For the last few weeks though, it spins 24//7 and does give off a little bit of heat. I continue to have the cloud feature disabled and overnights I have shutdown the 2 laptops that connect to it. Still it spins all night without any traffic.
This latest firmware left out the shutdown functionality and I have to wonder whether the drive sleeping functionality has been hampered as well. How can it not spin down without anything addressing it?
First the v2.x My Cloud firmware not having a shutdown option is a well known issue that for what ever reason WD hasn’t chosen to fix since the v2.x firmware versions were first released to market.
Do a subforum search for “shutdown” and you’ll find several threads that discuss methods of shutting down a Gen 2 v2.x firmware My Cloud using the WD Quickview App or SSH. Here is one such recent thread:
Second, the sleep issue is well discussed on this subforum. Do a subforum search for “sleep” and you’ll find numerous threads on the issue with various methods that attempt to have the My Cloud sleep more than a few minutes. Here are just a few recent threads that discuss various workarounds:
