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Question

Want to copy my wd slim external hdd into my cloud ex2 ultra

Oct 2, 2018 5:55AM PDT

I want to copy data (~800MB) from my WD Slim external HDD to a share which I have made in a 2tb WD red hdd installed in My Cloud EX2 Ultra. My Cloude EX2 Ultra is connected to my VDSL modem+Wifi Router via ethernet cable provided in the box, My PC is connected VDSL modem+router via wireless connection


1st Try.) I connected my WD slim external HDD to USB3 port on my PC and then copied the whole content of external hdd and pasted it in the “Main Share”(the share which I created during setup of My Cloud EX2 ultra).
I was getting a transfer speed of 6 MB/s. and the transfer time was coming out to be more then a day.


2nd Try.) I connected the WD Slim External HDD directly into in of the 2 USB 3 ports present on the My Cloud EX2 Ultra. This time the transfer speed initially was >1MB/s, which after some time stablised to ~4MB/s. The estimated transfer time this time came out to be more the 1 day again.


What am I doing wrong. Where is the bottleneck in my setup. Why am I getting so much high transfer time and low transfer speeds.

Please help!!!

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I think I see why.
Oct 3, 2018 10:03AM PDT

Network speed are a small fraction of USB speeds.

Even so, I would NEVER use Windows File Explorer for this copy. Let me give a BIG NOD to (google it)
ROADKIL'S UNSTOPPABLE COPIER.

I have many reasons to use this besides it is often faster. It also gives me a log of failed copies so I can go back in and check why it failed. Most of the time it's a name or path issue.

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Xfer time
Oct 3, 2018 7:20PM PDT