Improve WD MyCloud performance

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve just noticed that my NAS a Western Digital My Cloud EX2 is going slower, so I decided to investigate about what can I do to improve its performance.

I assume that you already configure ssh on your NAS device. If is not configured you can follow the next instructions: https://support-en.wd.com/app/answers/detailweb/a_id/12861

Stop Indexing Services

/etc/init.d/wdmcserver stop
/etc/init.d/wdphotodbmerger stop

To do it forever, you should create the cronjob as:

crontab -e

And add the following lines:

@reboot /bin/sh /etc/init.d/wdmcserverd stop
@reboot /bin/sh /etc/init.d/wdphotodbmerger stop

References:

Western Digital knowledge base link¹

How to enable SSH (Secure Shell) on a My Cloud EX2 device ↩︎

Storage | DCMST

Improve WD MyCloud performance

Stop Indexing Services