I got a MyCloud 2TB (Firmware v04.00.00-607) a week ago. Used only 200 GB in one share with SmartWare.The WDMC is connected to a Netgear WNDR3400 router and a laptop wired to the router.
I cannot understand why the Dashboard is so slow coming up and unbearable to navigate, especially after making any changes to the settings. Since the laptop is wired to the router, there should be no wifi speed issue; only the speed of the router switch (which is not a gigabit router). BUT, if the dashboard is only dealing with metadata , why does it take a minute/s to report the firmware version? What is the program doing ? Same can be said about numbers of shares (I have 8, of which 7 of them are empty) and numbers of users (1), etc, etc.
On the other hand, MyCoud shows up in the Windows Explorer Network (Win7 Pro) and large files can be transferred between WDMC and any disk attached to the computer at the same speed as between any other two disks attached to the computer… I’ve got similar performance in a laptop connected wirelessly to the network. So it doesn’t appear to be an issue of IO data transfer speed, or network speed, rather, an issue of the front end program, namely the Dashboard.
Can somebody from WD explain what’s going on and suggest solution/s?
Yes, Hamlet. I unplugged it for 10 minutes and rebooted several times to no avail. I was using Google. When I used IE it was even worse…
I also re-updated the firmware manually by downloading the zip file from the Wd website.
A temporary workaround I found, at least for me, was to stop the DLAN and the Itunes servers under Settings/Media. The dashboard main screen takes now ~15 seconds to populate and the navigation through the screens is faster so I can make the necessary changes without having to wait 2 minutes after every click for the screen to update. This workaround may not be a solution to others though who may need to stream media from the device.
My conclusion is that the front end software is no good.
A second issue i found was with the WD Smartware, but I’ll raise that in the proper forum. It shows the same shortcomings of the Dashboard, namely slow screens, not informing the user of what’s going on and lack of flexibility in the default settings…
The remote access speed to MyCloud was OK. and the file transfers where acceptable as well… But you better know what you are looking for and where it is located in the MyCloud because there is no way to remotely search for it.
