Wonder what is the fastest way to transfer around 1T of data from my laptops extern HD to my WD MyCloud. I have Windows 8.1 on my laptop. I was adviced from a note inside the WD MyCloud Package to
connect the HD to the laptop via usb
connect the laptop and the MyCloud directly to the router with a wired ethernet connection (I purchased a RJ45 Connector - 10/100 Mbps - 100 Mhz)
Copy the data from the extern HD to the MyCloud
I have tried this but it is very slow!
Q1 is this really the fastest method?
Q2 is my ethernet ok ((I purchased a RJ45 Connector - 10/100 Mbps - 100 Mhz))??
Q3 can I somehow check if my ethernet connection is OK?
if you have 10/100 router then you need a 10/100/1000 switch… connect laptop and mycloud to the switch and the switch to the router (if you need network). you will have greater speed
This all depends on your USB speeds. Could you confirm whether your external HDD uses USB 2.0 or USB 3.0?
Personally speaking, I believe the most effective method is over a local area network (LAN). However, this does come down to your network setup. I would recommend transfering over a physical cable (RJ45) on a 1Gbps network. Also, please ensure that all ports on your router/switch run at 1Gbps and that your PC/Laptop supports 1Gbps - not just 10/100 (100 Mbps).
To answer your questions:
No - I would transfer over a LAN
This depends on your network setup - Please post your router make and model and I will look into its interface speeds and the technical specs of the system your transfering from.
Yes you can. Please make sure your connected via ethernet and WIFI is disconnected from your network.
In a Windows environment, press and hold the windows start button and press ’ r’ on your keyboard.
You will then see the run window open. Type in ’ cmd’ and press enter/ok.
Once the command prompt window opens, type ‘ping -n 15 www.gooogle.com’
Once you have successfully ping’d the domain, you will then see the end result. What you need to look for here is some thing like this:
Ping statistics for XX.XX.XX.XX:
Packets: Sent = 15, Received = 15, Lost = 0 (0% loss)
If you see (0% loss) your network is fine. If you see a low percentage loss say between 3% - 10% run the above commands again to verify.
Because it was so slow yeasterday I tried to upload some files wireless.
When I afterwards try to click on the folders on my MyCloud it is very slow to show my the files in the folder. Some times it last nearly ½ minute to show 10-20 files in a folder! Wonder if something is wrong with my “MyCloud” or something went wrong with the transfer og the files?
For me it is very important to get a fast access to my files. Is “MyCloud” really that slow? Wonder if I should buy a synology instead. I have heard that the Synology NAS is faster than MyCloud?
Also I miss some features on the MyCloud like the one you have in windows where you can mark som files and by right-clicking see how many files you have marked and how much memory they use. It is a way to check if all the files from a given folder was transferred to the MyCloud device.
The method mentioned in the manual is the best approach. You need to have 1Gbps ethernet to enjoy fast transfer speed. With your current setup, you will experience the same transfer speed even on other NAS product. Worst if your external hdd is only USB2.
You mentioned having Win8.1 on your laptop so I would assumed your laptop model is quite recent with at least a 1Gbps lan port. So why you had to purchase a RJ45 100Mbps connector, USB-to-Ethernet?
Since you have only a 100Mbps router, getting a 1Gbps switch will help a lot doing inter-lan transfers. Or you could temporarily connect wdmycloud directly to your laptop’s lan port to do your external hdd 1Tb transfer.
If you’re somewhat proficient in unix, temporarily connect your external hdd directly to wdmycloud’s usb port, then use client GUI apps with drag&drop capabilities such as WinSCP to do direct sftp transfers. This is my preferred method for transferring huge data via USB3 through ssh shell copy.
Your router (Cisco/Linksys EA2700) is able to transmit @ 1Gbps via its ethernet ports . Your RJ45/ethernet cable will support this speed as long as its using all 8 cores and not just 4, which will limit it to 100Mbps. To identify if your ethernet cable is only using 4 cores, look at the RJ45 connector and see if more than 4 cores are visable.
You mentioned switching to Synology, to be honest, I don’t think this will cure your issue.
Could you let me know what make and model the device (Laptop/PC) your using to transmit the data? I’m curious as to what network interface/s your using.
Lastly, could you try booting from a linux live distro and see if you have the same issues?
