Question: I just bought a WD My Cloud 3 TB, connected it to my modem and connected 6 devices to it.Currently I am getting very slow response times, 0.5 – 3 seconds while browsing the files. (and it is empty) My file writing speed seems to be 15 MB/s max. ?
Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?
Answer: WD My Cloud is a piece of shi…. slow and unreliable + they want you to use their app which is basically a WD skinned finder. I’m very very disappointed. my speed limit with the disk is 10-15mb/sec over wifi while it is the speed I have while downloading from the internet through wifi on my mac book pro… the disk is slower than internet…
ANSWER WHY IT IS SLOW
WD My Cloud is slow because it is connected on a 100 mbps LAN network which means the max transfer speed is 100/8 -> 12.5 MO/sec you can know if your WD My Cloud is on a 100 Mbits or a 1 Gbits network by looking at the led next to the RJ45 plug. If it’s orange, it’s 100 Mbits that you have. if it’s green it’s 1Gbits. What you want is a 1Gbits LAN network -> get a better router…