Need Help in making my Baby Cloud Sleep Better

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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Update: after the firmware update, my cloud is no longer able to sleep :frowning: I can hear a click click click on the drive so some service is accessing the drive… too sleepy to figure it out… 

My Cloud sleep has almost slept through the night  over the last couple of weeks and I’ve killed almost every process that I figure that I safetly can.

WD called me on Tuesday and I had to restart wddispatcher and wdnotifier in order to eject my USB drive and after leaving those two services running I found those two services causes quite a disruption to my drives; wakeup almost 2-3 times an hour, and the 7 second wakeup is back despite my sync in the monitorio.sh,

Mar 13 22:15:29 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 7 (since 2014-03-13 22:15:22.130000001 -0700)
Mar 13 22:34:39 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 903 (since 2014-03-13 22:19:36.600000001 -0700)
Mar 13 23:15:29 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 2324 (since 2014-03-13 22:36:45.280000001 -0700)
Mar 13 23:19:26 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 110 (since 2014-03-13 23:17:36.020000001 -0700)

So here are the services that I managed to stop for the last month or so without any disruption to my activities including downloading ebooks, movies, music from my cloud app on the iphone/ipad.

/etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server stop

/etc/init.d/nfs-common stop

/etc/init.d/upnp_nas stop

/etc/init.d/mDNSResponder stop

/etc/init.d/wdphotodbmergerd stop

/etc/init.d/wdnotifierd stop

/etc/init.d/wdmcserverd stop

/etc/init.d/wddispatcherd stop

/etc/init.d# /etc/init.d/cron stop

DO NOT STOP THE FOLLOWING

This seems to put the device into a white led mode fscking. 

/etc/init.d/pfe_init        <== I saw this on the top when I listed the active services when the hard drive woke 

So I would appreciate any other services that you have stopped. 

Thanks

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Have you reported your findings to tech support already?

They should be able to further assist you with your issue.

http://support.wdc.com/contact/index.asp?wdc_lang=en

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Actually I did mentioned in passing to Michael when he and I talked about the trouble with an attached USB during bootup, but I felt that he wasn’t too keen on a user digging through the code as well the Tech guy is to help you troubleshoot your device and not re-program the device to do something that the device was never programmed to do and that is sleep :stuck_out_tongue:

After getting through a scare with the device initializing and a total reset of the device, I’ve decided to leave the device as is; in fact I’ve turned off sleep completely; for now.

The device has booted up with a message that the media scan has been turned off by the new firmware due to insane amount of CPU activity and I think I will take this opportunity to leave it as-is… forever.