I recently purchased a WD My Cloud. The only problem I face so far is the extremely slow ‘everything’, from transfers to simple use of the dashboard, such as setting a folder from public to non-public (takes around 2 minutes!).
My relatives, trying to see pictures from remote, with a tablet for instance, have access to the folders and the pictures, but it takes ages before a single photograph is downloaded…
I have browsed the forum but found some messages mostly related to windows users and I have a mac.
Even though my DLNA files are restricted to one, small DLNA-enabled ‘share’ aka folder, which was promptly scanned and ‘built’, myCloud has gagged on another ‘share’ which holds my first, 15 GB tranche of non-DLNA research files. After a week, when myCloud had stalled at ~2% of the 200k items, I rebooted the system. Several hours later, not only hasn’t it scanned *any* files, the ‘free space’ info has vanished…
If you build a library from nothing, I reckon the myCloud can easily handle those incremental additions. If this is your *second* NAS drive and you port a huge directory tree across from the first (eg my dying Seagate goFlex) the myCloud may just go away and sulk…
My second problem is the myCloud will NOT sleep until it has finished building its media thumbnail collection, which could take so long as to severely curtail the drive’s useful life…
I was so disgusted by how ‘myCloud’ was making zero (0%) progress on ‘thumbnailing’ my huge research archive that I closed the UI and got on with life…
24 hrs later, I’ve just opened the UI to check on the drive and, to my surprise, found the system had made a LOT of progress.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the myCloud’s mini-smarts cannot ‘walk and chew gum’ ?
Perhaps you must close the UI to release enough processor power for *serious* house-keeping ??
