No shutdown option in 6tb

there is no option to shut down or hibernate the device 6TB WD

Use the forum search feature, magnifying glass icon upper right. This is a well known and well discussed and well complained about issue with the second gen v2.x firmware single bay My Cloud units.

http://community.wd.com/search?q=shutdown%20category%3A105

WD has a Knowledgebase article covering how to shutdown a My Cloud device.

https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=16782

One can use the WD QuickView program to shutdown a v2.x single bay My Cloud.

https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx

Or one can see the past discussions on either using a web browser to trigger the shutdown command through the Dashboard or use SSH to issue the shutdown command.

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