Hello,
I am a pro photographer with a 5TB USB drive filled with photos and video. What’s that fastest way to copy all of that to the PR4100? Every time I plug in a USB drive a get a message about a power reduction on port 2.
Hello,
Take a look at page # 43 of the user’s manual
http://products.wdc.com/library/UM/ENG/4779-705142.pdf#page=49
The discussion in the manual is about backing up a USB drive to the NAS. To COPY files from USB drive to My Cloud (I have a similar DL2100 NAS), I simply connect a USB drive (USB 3 is fastest) to my PC and use Windows File Explorer copy command to copy files (even all of them) to NAS. It probably helps that both the PC and NAS are connected to the same gigabit network switch, which in turn is connected to my (gigabit) home network. My copy speeds are at the max of 113 MB/sec. USB2 drives naturally copy at much slower speeds.
Hello Hamlet and Mike, Thanks for the replies. Mike, you are right in that I want to copy, not backup, the files. I want them to be accessible as a share on my network once they are copied to the NAS. So are you saying that this device, which has three glorious USB ports, will not allow me to copy directly from the USB drive to the NAS, and that I have to dedicate a PC to each of the my three 5 TB drives that are stuffed with data throughout the copy process? I figured it would take a few days to copy with a direct USB connection. Having a laptop sitting there and going across the network … it’ll take weeks, for each drive to be ingested.
Is it really true that this NAS will not allow copying from a directly connected USB drive? I’m shaking my head. How could WDC miss such an obvious use case?
It is all in the user manual; have you got a copy of the PDF?
Look, hooking to the USB ports works, but it can be slower. I can transfer files at 113 MB/sec using fast USB3 drives on PC usb port via gigabit network. I believe the ports on the NAS are mostly used for no-brainer backups, (and they are NOT file copies, but rather encoded versions of the data), but copying files from one device to another needs a “director” meaning using FIle Explorer to guide the way it all goes.
Hello
Actually you can attach the storage to the USB port and go to the Dashboard, under Apps, Web file viewer. Use copy-Paste option in there. One thing that is silly, is you can’t follow the status and legitimate of the copying process and your NAS will be unresponsive for some time. Eventually you can follow your free space to se for the progress.
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Or SSH to your NAS and user the Rsync or cp Files/Folders
