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Alright rac8006, I’ve turned off SMB and got the following result:

May 3 13:27:54 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 915 (since 2015-05-03 13:12:34.068573001 -0700)
May 3 15:06:19 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 5598 (since 2015-05-03 13:32:56.898573001 -0700)

looks good… I’m connected via AFP right now… AFP is very robust but a tad slower for transfering files. 

I’ll let it sleep tonight for longer periods.

edited: 

here are my timing last night. Not much difference with or without SMB.

May 4 00:15:44 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 7 (since 2015-05-04 00:15:32.538573001 -0700)
May 4 00:55:56 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 1801 (since 2015-05-04 00:25:50.158573001 -0700)
May 4 02:50:33 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 6570 (since 2015-05-04 01:00:58.898573001 -0700)
May 4 03:05:17 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 577 (since 2015-05-04 02:55:35.698573001 -0700)
May 4 03:10:30 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 6 (since 2015-05-04 03:10:19.888573001 -0700)
May 4 06:13:22 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 10664 (since 2015-05-04 03:15:33.318573001 -0700)
May 4 06:33:09 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 879 (since 2015-05-04 06:18:25.558573001 -0700)
May 4 08:34:59 WDMyCloud logger: exit standby after 7002 (since 2015-05-04 06:38:12.408573001 -0700)

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