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How to improve performance on a WD MyCloud EX2

Last updated on Jun 30, 2021 1 min read SysAdmin, Linux, Storage

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.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=14952

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

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

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