Updating it to a specific firmware build

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My WDmycloud is thrashing the drive so much that it’s really slow.  So just in case it’s a hardware issue I bought a spare.  But in the meantime to be safe I’d like to update the new unit to the firmware right BEFORE the latest one.  How does one find a prior firmware release?

(pardon the newb question)

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hi 

  http://download.wdc.com/nas/sq-030401-230-20140415.deb.zip

download and unzip 

save the .deb file for later use

then log into the web ui

replace the x with ip adress of the device on your network

http://xxx.xxx.x.xxx/ui

go to setting, then firmware then click on upgrade manually,  locate the .deb firmware file

wait a while

done!

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Kewl, that was it!  Thank you.

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Do you not have to change the version file so that it thinks it is upgrading?

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I had a new Mycloud and only wanted to get it up to a certain version.  I now have turned off updating.

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Re: Updating it to a specific firmware build

13 hours ago

Do you not have to change the version file so that it thinks it is upgrading?

you are talking about a method to downgrade involving winscp see this thread   http://community.wd.com/t5/WD-My-Cloud/Easy-method-to-downgrade-to-previous-version-of-the-firmware/td-p/773073

some people had success with this technique but not me

the method mentioned here is for upgarding to a newer frimware but not the newest