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Okay, so are we on the same page for Data Speeds? Gigabit ethernet = good and Wifi = ok for laptops for general file copying. The good news is that once you get the data over to the NAS, it is pretty much permanent until you buy your next device and have to do this all over again. So if you are copying a lot of photos, mp3’s, ebooks, no matter what device you buy, the speed for copying small files is always terrible because even if you have a very very expensive NAS that has a large memory cache, it will eventually fill it up and you end up with 4-6MB/s. Now the funny thing is that if you copy many many small files, even over the gigabit ethernet connection, the speed drops down to about 4-6 MB/s and that is because you really don’t have much memory for caching the data on the NAS and that is to be expected. Small files always takes longer, just the facts of life… So if you got a 1TB drive on your laptop and you want to copy 1024GB to the NAS, at speeds of 8.6MB/s, it comes out to about 33 hours probably more because smaller files takes longer.įor a more reasonalbe 100GB drive, to time machine backup would be about 6-8 hours, but once the initial backup is done, all later backup changes should take very little time.
What this means is regardless of whether you have a WD Cloud Drive or a very expensive data storage server on the other end and if you are transfering data via WIFI, this is about as fast you will get. To copy a 733MB file to and from the WD drive it took about 85 seconds, giving me 8.6MB/s which is pretty standard for WIFI.
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So I disabled the wired connection on my Mac and enabled WIFI only to see how it would feel. This performance was more then acceptable!! The surprise was the network speed of 40MB/s write and 70MB/s reads off the WD MyBook connected via the USB 3.0 port, which is just slightly slower then 45MB/s write and 75MB/s read from the WD Cloud. This was the selling point for keeping the two devices as I bought the 4tb WD Cloud and the 4tb WD MyBook together in hopes of using the MyBook as a mirror or rather as a backup, perhaps using scheduled rsync within the NAS itself. Just a brief note on the USB 3.0 Speed via the NAS If it is showing up yellow, that means you are connected on100Mbits lan. This means you have a router that has gigabit ports so that both your PC/Mac and WD Cloud are connected to the same router and your WD Cloud is showing a green LED on the ethernet connection. This is the ultimate best scenario for your WD Cloud by being connected on a gigabit ethernet LAN (Local Area Network) and I’m reading and writing on a SSD flash drive on the Mac side. To read it back from the device takes less then 10 seconds reading is about twice as fast as writing.
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How fast you ask? well for large movie file of 733MB, it takes roughly 15-20 seconds to copy it over to the NAS.
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It has the ability to be as fast as some of the more expensive NAS devices out in the market however you have to spend a little time in finding out “why” you are having problems and yes there are some nasty software problems that WD has (we will talk about it later), but for a new out of the box system you won’t have to worry about it till you fill up your hard drive with data. Lets start off with the fact that your brand new WD Cloud is “NOT” slow.
Your Car will go 200MPH, just not in local traffic If you are having problems with copying files which seems to take forever… the problem is most likely “you” (well perhaps not you particularly but your infrastructure in your house) and it is not the device :P Even the Futureshop reviews, where I bought the drives, complained about about the speed of the device. I’ve read every single post on this forum looking for small nugets of information that I have been using to fix my problems with the device and I have been chuckling on the large number of posts that complains about the copying speeds. I will not lie to you as there were some transitional pains between my old WD Live and the new drives and I’ll cover the pains later in this post. This post has taken almost 6 hours to type up (I began about 5pm and finishing about 11pm) and my main reason for doing this isn’t thatI’m a staff of WD but I wouldn’t hesitate to take any under the table money if offered, is that after having bought my two WD Cloud and MyBook, I really wanted to share my love for the devices by giving back to the forums.Ĭurrently the two drives are sitting on the bookshelf with Book Covers ( yeah they look like books), probably sleeping since I haven’t access them for quite awhile, however they are quietly waiting for my next access.
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