My cloud home internal transfer unbearably slow

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With a little planning, you can store small files into zip containers on the My Cloud Home and copy or move the zip files at up to 76 MBps, about 100x faster than copying and storing small files. The zip containers can also be mounted and files within browsed using many free zip-mounting file systems.

My Cloud Home very slow moving and deleting files from folders with lot of files

The answer is simple. Don’t store too many small files on the KDDFS that the WD Discovery program mounts and don’t use Windows Explorer to delete or move a lot of small files on the KDDFS. The fastest way to store hundreds or thousands of small files is illustrated here:

How to increase copy speed to private space >100X for small files, from 0.7 MBps to 76 MBps* updated

The original post on top showed you how to increase copy speed of small files to the shareable ‘Private user’ space from 0.7 to 30 MBps. This post will show you how to increase that from 0.7 to ~76 MBps; even though the progress bar showed 97 MB/s, the final speed measured for the entire operation was about 76 MBps. [mx07zoption2021-03-22_082706] You can accomplish this by including the 7zip -mx0 switch option in the Teracopy menu when you edit the PasteMenu.ini file with notepad. The Teraco…