I’ve only had the My Cloud for about two weeks and I connected it to a Kill-A-Watt to see how much power it used. Prior to the mistake of updating the firmware from V03.03.01-156 to V03.03.01-165 last night, the My Cloud Sleep function seemed to work ok. The Kill-A-Watt reported 4 watts when sleeping and 8 watts when “playing” .flac files. When I was loading the .flac files it used about 10 watts.
Since the sleep function no longer works, last night when I was through using it I shut it down from the Dashboard and it seemed to shut down normally as the front panel light went off after a little while. Much to my surprise when I looked at the Kill-A-Watt it was reporting 5 watts after the shutdown had completed and was still reading the same this morning - One watt more than when it used to sleep! Thinking that it might be a problem with the power supply and since the unit was shut down I pulled the power connector out of the back of the My Cloud and the Kill-A-Watt reading went to 0 (zero). That is really sad when the Shudown state uses more power than the Sleep state. My Synology DS410 only uses 1 watt when it is sleeping and waiting for a potential Wake-On-LAN request.
Other miscellaneous information:
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I am not accessing the Internet, only my local LAN.
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Sleep is turned On.
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I enabled SSH and FTP but so far have not tried to use it for anything.
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Currently I am only using this as the DLNA server for my .flac files to my 2 WD TV SMPs and to share mostly text type files bewteen my main XP system, my W7 notebook, and my 2 Raspberry Pi computers.
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I’m using my Retrospect Professional Backup software to back up any critical files on the My Cloud to my XP system.
Hopefully I provided enough information so this sleep and shutdown power issue can be resolved.
