To the point my wd my cloud is extremely slow when transfering files from folder to folder that are both located on the my cloud at best i see 1Megabyte per sec most of the time in the double digit kbps range. But when transfering files to and from desktop to my cloud i see 65 - 80 Megabytes per second. My set up is a linksys wrt310n v2 connected to TP link 16 port gigabite rackmont switch, all desktops have intel gigabit nics and connected to the switch along with the my cloud useing cat 6 everything is green reporting full gigabit. Any ideas or thoughts would be thanked and welcomed.
Something is wrong. I just bench marked my 2TB WDMyCloud and got the following results (Windows 10; Gigabit LAN)
MyCloud to MyCloud (folder to folder) 30 MB/s
Computer to MyCloud: 80 MB/s
Paul
There is a known problem trying to copy from one folder on the my cloud to another when using Windows Explorer. The cause is the data is being sent from the My Cloud, through your computer, then back to the My Cloud.
The solution is to either use the WD My Cloud Desktop program, WD Mobile apps, or use a copy/move command via SSH which will instruct the My Cloud to move the files itself from one folder to another on its hard drive rather than sending the files through one’s computer across the network.
I hope people realize that a folder to folder copy pf 30 MB/s is really 60MB/s. Because you have to read the file into the PC and then write it back out. So that is 30MB/s read and 30MB/s write. You also have to take into account that when reading from one folder to another folder. You are most likely reading from one part of the disk and then writing to another part of the disk. This involves head movement. When copying a file to disk. As long as the disk is not fragmented. You will be writing the file to disk with very little head movement.
RAC
Funnily enough, I was using my XP desktop to sort out video files i’d copied from my humax PVR to the MyCloud yesterday. And, judging by the speed at which it was moving files into sub-folders, it can only have been doing it by directory modifications, not by actually moving files. Since I’m not moving data off the MyCloud, this makes sense.
