Hello,
I bought the MyCloud without knowing about its slowlyness and backgroind services that cannot be disabled via its web interface.
I studied the web and found the option to add cron tasks to stop two services from working, wdphotodbmerger and wdmcserverd. That worked great.
Are there additional options that work this way? Can I get rid of Twonky permanently, for instance? I really just need to have the NAS running as a network drive so my backup tool can access it by running on my computer. No fancy extras. The drive needs ti cope with thousands of single files and I do not need anything runnig in the background doing some silly indexing or scanning
Best wishes,
Christian
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update-rc.d wdphotodbmergerd disable
update-rc.d wdmcserverd disable
update-rc.d mDNSResponder disable
update-rc.d itunes disable
And other stuff in /etc/init.d (But be careful - dont stop/disable system tools, like dhcpd, networking and others. (Just dont touch what you dont known)
If you turn off media streaming via the Dashboard, you will stop the twonky server.
Ralphael posted a list of services, but we don’t have a definitive guide to which can be disabled…
http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud/The-Guide-to-Cloud-Services-as-defined-by-the-User-Community/m-p/876349
back when I was really curious, I would stop almost every service at least once to see if my drive continues working 
It has been a year and half now and I forgot what I did with the list.
Follow the link that cp_paranoia provided to my post on all the services that are in use.
For the most part as long as you have the ability to SSH into the device, or have access to the menu to shut down your device, you are good.
Try stopping each of the services to see whether or not your drive continues to function afterwards.
Use the command
/etc/init.d/ stop
like
/etc/init.d/samba stop
DO NOT USE
update-rc.d
to disable a process until you are absolutely sure you don’t need the services because if you disable a process and you need it to communicate with the device and rebooting doesn’t enable it again, you are up **** creek.
So just use /etc/init.d/ stop for now.
Document any effects after stopping a process and let us know. That way, someday we can all run just a basic NAS device unlike the foggy/cloudy device that we have now that wakes up at 3am to play solitaire.
good luck…
cpt_paranoia wrote:
If you turn off media streaming via the Dashboard, you will stop the twonky server.
Ralphael posted a list of services, but we don’t have a definitive guide to which can be disabled…
http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud/The-Guide-to-Cloud-Services-as-defined-by-the-User-Community/m-p/876349
