Transmission/Bittorrent sync on My Cloud 2TB Firmware V2.10.310?

Legacy Products My Cloud OS 3
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Hi guys,

Newbie question, I have just purchased a 2TB My Cloud as my RPi NAS drive has died and i wanted something a bit more reliable. I want some sort of torrent client on it but all i can find is posts about transmission or bittorrent sync using firmware V4+ and mine has firmware version 2.10.310.

Is there anything out there for my firmware?

If not is it possible to switch to V4??

Thanks in advance

Joel

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Have you tried the Dashboard Settings>Firmware>Available Updates and checked for updates?

cat0w
USA

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Thanks for your reply.

Yes I have, it said there was an update available and it was originally on version 2 point something and I assumed when I updated it would be version 4 so I updated it. Now, when I check it says itā€™s version 2.10.310 and has the latest firmware version. When I check the WD download website it give me the option to choose v2 or v04 but does not mention the difference between them or what they are compatible with.

Itā€™s a little bit confusing as there isnā€™t much mention of v2 anywhere :weary:

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It appears you may have one of the new ā€œgeneration 2ā€ My Cloud units. A few others previously reported purchasing My Cloudā€™s recently that shipped with firmware 2.10.310. Unknown if the apps that have been modified to work on first generation My Cloud firmware will work on the Gen 2 versions.

http://community.wd.com/t/latest-my-cloud-mirror-firmware-pre-installed-on-brand-new-my-cloud/145284

http://community.wd.com/t/how-to-sync-two-mycloud-at-different-locations/145528

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Thank you that certainly clears things up a bit, guess I didnā€™t look hard enough :frowning:

I guess Iā€™ll just have to wait a while for some more info on this if these are new gen 2 hardware.

Thanks for your help :+1:t2:

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Did anybody already confirmed that these are next gen boxes and what are the benefits? Iā€™ve one of these boxes and the firmware seems to be something non Debian which makes it pretty hard to add Bittorrent Sync to it without know about the system. I canā€™t even edit a file as nano is not available and I donā€™t know how to get it without cross compiling. changes on /etc seems to be dropped after restartā€¦

Would be great if someone already figured out some hints.

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Search for ā€˜Gen2ā€™ or ā€˜Gen 2ā€™ on the forum for discussions on the new hardware/firmware devices.

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[quote=ā€œhausmaen, post:6, topic:147287, full:trueā€]
Did anybody already confirmed that these are next gen boxes and what are the benefits?[/quote]
Yes. As the previous poster indicated do a subforum search, there are several threads that discuss the Gen 2 device versus the Gen 1 device and the different OS used on them.

For example from a post three days ago in another thread, the Processor/RAM difference between the two devices was posted.

Gen2 (v2.x) will have the following processor and RAM:
Marvell armada 370 (2core, 800MHz)
512 MB Ram

Gen1 (v3.x/v4.x) will have the following processor and RAM:
Mindspeed Comcerto C2000 (2 core, 650MHz)
256 MB Ram

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