Hi,
I am copying my photo archive to the WD Mycloud. The archive is 330GB and approx 74000 files. I started nearly 20 hours ago and 100 GB is done which means the process Will continue for several days. Is this ok?
/Mats
Lots of smaller files like 1-2mb each of 300gb will take longer than a single 300gb.
You didn’t explain how you’re doing it? Wd app? Windows share? From external usb? Wifi? Wired? If wired what’s the color of the rear led where the lan cable goes for both wdmycloud and pc?
Hi Nazar,
I transfer from laptop HD to WDMC wired through LAN (I deactivated wifi). LED shows pc: solid green and flashing orange, WD solid orange and flashing green.
I dragged the whole archive from desktop to the shared folder in the My Cloud program. Using win 8.Â
/Mats
On both nas and pc, blinking leds indicates activities, the colors are sometimes mixed up. But most importantly solid leds indicates link type, meaning green Gigabit aka 1Gbps, yellow/orange Fast aka 100Mbps.
From your description, your pc is 1Gbps connected but the nas is only 100Mbps. If you’re using a network switch, check your cables by switching them temporarily. If no switch, check your router if all the ports are 1Gbps capable.
Thanks for your helpful answers Nazar. You are correct about the cables: cat 6 to pc and cat 5 to NAS. The switch to which the pc and NAS are connected is in turn connectet with cat5 to the gateway…and I cant change that one…I might just have to accept the slow transfer. Now 130 GB of 330 are done. Ridicolous that one can’t plug an external USB drive directly into the WD…at least that’s what the manual says (one have to go through the network).
/Mats
No problem. Yeah you need at least cat5e. Understood if you can’t replace the ones to the gateway, walls etc. But the ones connected to the switch you should be able to replace. This will create the 1Gbps link from your switch. The nas comes with cat5e, just replace with another.
The reason why the manual states so because, if you were to connect to the usb directly, when you perform a copy or move between windows shares, the data from the usb share will be routed to your pc first, then to the nas. This is how samba shares work.
There’s a quick workaround. But only if you’re comfortable with linux. With your usb drive connected to the nas, enable ssh then get a software called WinSCP and login via sftp://root@wdmycloud:22/. Look for your usb and local shares, move them via drag & drop, hold ctrl to copy instead. Good luck!
