Using MyCloud as a NORMAL winchester?

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud
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Hi!

Is there a way to use my WD MyCloud as a NORMAL external winchester, with USB cabel, directly connected with my PC? My internet speed is far slower, than the direct USB transfer, so I can’t copy HD movies with internet speed.

Please Help!

Thanks

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Doing file transfers from your home network doesn’t use the internet, so that really has nothing to do with it when you’re at home.

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Ok, but my PC and MyCloud have the same USB input form, so I can not connect them each other. I can put an extra HDD to MyCloud, and I can transfer data between them but is there a direct way to do that?

I searched for hours, but I’ve found no answer.

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Reply to: benyo85

Tony is right, if you want to know the route your computer is taking to your My Cloud do a Trace Route. See image below. You will see my computer goes to My Cloud through my router while there are a few hops to get to the WD Community.

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Now place 208.74.204.62 in the address bar and click Enter. WD Community will open.

Have you connected a ethernet cable from your computer to your router. That should speed things up a little.

As for the attached HDD to My Cloud where else do you think the information would travel other than from one to the other.

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benyo85 wrote:

Hi!

 

Is there a way to use my WD MyCloud as a NORMAL external winchester, with USB cabel, directly connected with my PC? My internet speed is far slower, than the direct USB transfer, so I can’t copy HD movies with internet speed.

Please Help!

 

Thanks

The answer is no, you cannot connect the MyCloud directly to the Computer with a USB cable.

However you can connect your MyCloud directly with an ethernet cable, bypassing the router, but your speed is still limited to your pc network speed; gigabit if gigabit.

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Thank you, the ethernet connection works perfectly.

Thanks for everyone for the advices!