Idiot's guide to making WDMyCloud work - needed!

[cpt_paranoia]

 USB port is simply very slow. I measured 3.4 MB/s.  You should be able to estimate how long it might take to back up your data; 3TB would be about 10 days at that rate…

http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud/Slow-Transfer-Speed-over-USB/td-p/651477

http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud/USB-drive-transfer-speeds/td-p/860799