This will fix all of your problems for good.
No more dropping offline, reboot, endless scanning, sleeping, twonky, SSH, safepoint, or anyhting else.
Not progressive but very residential.
Just an FYI, below are the results of my robocopy bat file to the drive in the USB enclosure (F:). I switched to a bat file years ago because of course SafePoint never worked. Even with a gigabit router and green lights everywhere I never approached speeds anywhere near this. The second command with all of the small files in the Plex folder would often just cause the My Cloud to bog to a stop. Glad I finally trashed the My Cloud.
I’m still using a WD MCM as my network drive.
ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows
Started : Wednesday, March 10, 2021 2:45:58 PM
Source : \MyCloudMirror\media1
Dest : F:\media1bu\
Files : *.*
Options : . /FFT /S /E /DCOPY:D /COPY:DT /NP /R:3 /W:30
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 163 46 117 0 0 0
Files : 8139 1673 6466 0 0 0
Bytes : 2.480 t 511.042 g 1.981 t 0 0 0
Times : 1:42:31 1:42:22 0:00:00 0:00:08
Speed : 89328859 Bytes/sec.
Speed : 5111.438 MegaBytes/min.
Ended : Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:28:38 PM
ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows
Started : Wednesday, March 10, 2021 4:59:30 PM
Source : C:\Users\Nunya\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server
Dest : F:\plexbu\
Files : *.*
Options : . /FFT /S /E /DCOPY:D /COPY:DT /NP /R:3 /W:30
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch FAILED Extras
Dirs : 185470 185470 0 0 0 0
Files : 318320 318320 0 0 0 0
Bytes : 25.926 g 25.926 g 0 0 0 0
Times : 2:26:40 2:00:36 0:00:00 0:26:04
Speed : 3847087 Bytes/sec.
Speed : 220.132 MegaBytes/min.
Ended : Wednesday, March 10, 2021 7:26:11 PM
A bit of a nuclear option! Most issues with the MyCloud series can be solved with some education and perseverance. That’s an expensive way to get an external USB drive with very limited functionality.
Just wasn’t worth the trouble anymore. I killed the mediacrawler, deleted all of the wdmc thumbnails, stopped all of the twonky stuff and the thing would still not work reliably. Tried upgrading the firmware, rolled back the firmware, and numerous system resets.
This thing is sold as an end user plug and play device and it just never worked for that. It would only work reliably if I copied large files to it or a few small files at a time. Anytime I tried copying a large number of small files it would get so far and just stop.
I wouldn’t recommend buying this and swapping it over to a USB enclosure but $20 to salvage a basically useless device isn’t a bad option.
Strange. Haven’t had any show stopping issues with a first gen single bay My Cloud in all my years of using one as a basic NAS. It has its firmware issues, many of which can be solved via SSH tweaks. It has some hardware limitations. But by and large it has worked for what it is. Has worked from it’s very first plug-in and setup. It worked fine for several years as a media library location for a Raspberry Pi Plex Media Server.
Would I buy it again, today? Probably not as my NAS needs have surpassed what the single bay My Cloud was capable of. Are there some issues with this device? Absolutely. Are some complaints that people have had with the device actually not the devices fault? Absolutely. Quite a few complaints made in this subforum over the years have ended up being; user error, Microsoft changing Windows settings affecting all NAS devices, how one’s network is setup/configured, using wireless extenders, power line network extender/adapters, slow WiFi copying, broadband provider blocking remote access ports, etc.
Meanwhile, several user replaced hard drives later, and the single bay first gen keeps chugging long as a very basic NAS. Now relegated to being a secondary storage location. Shrugs.
YMMV and all that.
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Well, I fixed all the problems by installing Debian (and all necessary software)…
Then i sold this s**t and buyed nettop with custom case with 4x2.5" HDD bays. (And 2x Wi-Fi modules for 2.4+5.0 GHz, NVME SSD and 4x GBE ports). Now this device works as router, nas, web-server, game-server, media-center and few other things.
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