WD MyCloud connected to my 100Mbit/s home adsl router. And tested transfer bandwidth through Wi-Fi (802.11g 54Mbits) just near to the router.
==> Transfer bandwidth didn’t exceed 20Mbit/s for reading and around ~13Mbit/s for writing.
WD MyCloud connected to the 100Mbit/s port in the router. And tested transfer thgough Lan cable (cat.5) with 100Mbit/s.
==> Same results.
WD MyCloud connected directly to my laptop. The interface went up to 1Gbit/s (green light).
==> Same results. Sometimes, the traffic goes till 40 or 45Mbit/s but no more.
Just to note also, that I’ve tested several lan cables (as well as the cable provided with MyCloud), but with no better results.
My question is:
I can understand that the disk in itself, can not handle 1Gbit/s. but, With Wi-Fi I’m expecting to get at least 40Mbit/s as well as through cable going till 100Mbit/s.
What kind of copy do you use to evaluated the performance? File copy from Windows Explorer to a mapped share, through the WD My Cloud Desktop App, through Wd2go.com?
I can understand that the disk in itself, can not handle 1Gbit/s. but, With Wi-Fi I’m expecting to get at least 40Mbit/s as well as through cable going till 100Mbit/s.
It’s actually capable of very close to 1 Gbit/sec:
That’s 106 megaBYTES per second, which is very close to 1000 megabits per second if you take “overhead” into account.
You will not get more than 20-30 megabits per second on 802.11g. Yes, the “theoretical” maximum is 54megabits per second, but that’s under very specific (laboratory) conditions.
Note: File size can have a large influence on speeds. The above test is copying several 3 gigabyte+ size files (reading.)
I don’t trust windows transfer files. Then I’m always using Filezilla as a file transfer client.
I’ve tried it with several other servers locally and it goes to 100Mbit/s easily. But this is not the case with my WD.
This is what is making me crazy. Same infrastructure and same client (my laptop), when I download (same file) from a ubuntu ftp server, it goes up to 90 ~95% of link capacity, but when ftp from the WD, i never went more than 20Mbit/s