Looking to transfer your WD Slim external HDD to your cloud ex2 ultra storage?
Looking to transfer your WD Slim external HDD to your cloud ex2 ultra storage?
I need to move data from your WD Slim external HDD to a shared drive you set up on your My Cloud EX2 Ultra. Your setup involves connecting your PC to the WD Slim via USB3, then copying everything to the cloud share. You tried two methods: first using USB3 port and then directly into one of the USB 3 ports. The speeds were low—around 6 MB/s and over a day for the transfer. When you connected the HDD directly to a USB 3 port, it improved to about 4 MB/s, but still took nearly a day. I’m confused about what’s slowing things down and how to fix it. Can you identify the bottleneck?
I linked my external HDD to the USB3 port on my PC and then transferred the entire external drive's data into the "Main Share." The transfer speed settled at a steady 6 MB/s, with an expected duration longer than a day.
I purchased Quantum Zero USB3 to SATA adapter, which functions as a hot-swap dock. I linked the 2TB WD Red NAS driver to my PC. The "Format external HDD" prompt appeared immediately after setup. If I transfer the 800 GB data into this NAS drive after formatting, I’ll be prompted again to format it before installing it in WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra. This ensures the data is cleared from the NAS when the drive is installed.
Confirming your understanding: speeds are expressed in MB/s, not Mb/s. Your modem supports only 6MB/s over the LAN port. The product page links you provided can help you explore options. For transferring large files like ~800GB wirelessly to your WD My Cloud Ultra EX2 via Ethernet, consider checking bandwidth requirements and using a wired connection for reliability.
I just finished the steps to move the backup from USB to NAS. The job is running but the page shows no progress. I expect a speed of over 50 MBps when copying from my USB 3.0 external HDD to My Cloud Ultra EX2 NAS, but I’m only seeing 2-4 MBps. I’m confused because I don’t need to repeat this process if I get a faster connection. If files are sent directly through the USB3.0 port to the NAS, I should expect much higher speeds—especially since my modem and router only have a 10/100 Ethernet port. That means the real limit comes from the LAN connection, not the USB transfer. The 12 MBps from a 100 Mbps LAN is actually quite reasonable for that setup.
I cant tell exactly what you have going on, but whenever I have alot of data to transfer to mine I use either a crossover cable or a small gigabit switch depending on what is closer. Directly connect to the device and you should see decent speeds. If the switch on the back of your router is 100 mbit you should see speeds of 11mB ish. If you have your external hdd connected to the unit by default the data travels across the network to the pc, then from the pc to the mycloud device. If this is the case 4-6 mB is about right. There is a video that shows you how to ssh into the mycloud and from there you can copy files over from command line without using the network connection.