There isn’t a comprehensive guide because each person may need different features enabled for their particular usage. The usual warning has to be made, using SSH will potentially void the My Cloud warranty and if incorrect commands are used (like apt-get) one can brick/render unusable their My Cloud. If one doesn’t know how to use SSH they can perform an internet search with to find basic guides on issuing Linux commands via SSH. One also must enable the SSH option within the My Cloud Dashboard Settings section before using SSH.
First one needs to determine how much their first gen My Cloud is sleeping. Using the sleep.awk/sleeptime.sh scripts explained in the following tread:
https://community.wd.com/t/new-sleep-awk/153431
On the first gen single bay My Cloud one can put commands into the /etc/rc2.d/S98user-start file that get run when the My Cloud boots up. After adding the commands one would restart the My Cloud. Here are the basic commands (below) for the S98user-start file that may help improve 1st gen sleep time. One can find additional commands in various other discussions on the sleep issue. Using WinSCP (WinSCP :: Official Site :: Download) or Putty (https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) one can edit the S98user-start file to add various commands.
# Move Msg.sock to temporary RAM location
/etc/init.d/samba stop
mount -t tmpfs -o mode=0700,noatime,size=2m tmpfs /etc/samba/msg.sock/
/etc/init.d/samba start
# Stop unwanted wakeups
mount -o remount,noatime,nodiratime /dev/root /
# Stop and disable indexing services (just stopping the service not disable)
/etc/init.d/wdmcserverd stop
/etc/init.d/wdphotodbmergerd stop
# For OS3 firmware only - stop RESTSDK server daemon
/etc/rc2.d/S20restsdk-serverd stop
# Stop Cron
/etc/init.d/cron stop
