Hello,
I thought I would share my experience using an inexpensive WD MyCloud as my primary music file source for BDP-1 playback.
The Western Digital MyCloud is a nice, consumer-grade NAS that in my experience is very reliable, now that the firmware has settled down (about a year ago, I stopped using it, because of firmware issues).
However, you may or may not have performance issues providing NAS access to your BDP - particularly with large files. In my case, the WD MyCloud was struggling to reliably deliver 192/24 AIFF files for MPD playback on the BDP-1 - even with wired ethernet.
TO keep things brief, I will skip the discovery and troubleshooting I went through along the way, but I've observed that with the default settings, the WD MyCloud's processor can be overloaded with internal processes to manage some of the app features (like photo and file sharing over the Internet).
Here's a summary of the performance differences I observed after doing the steps I outline below (as always, YMMV):
—> Write Speed Test Before (1GB): (AFP) 16.3 MB/s (SMB) 35.1 MB/s
—> Write Speed Test After (1GB): (AFP) 26.7 MB/s (SMB) 60.9 MB/s
Here's how to disable the extra app functions to streamline the WD MyCloud to act as a high-performance NAS device.
1. SSH into the device. The default password is: welc0me (welcome with a zero).
2. Disable wdmcserverd and wdphotodbmergerd
/etc/init.d/wdphotodbmergerd stop
update-rc.d wdphotodbmergerd disable
/etc/init.d/wdmcserverd stop
update-rc.d wdmcserverd disable
3. Remove the hidden folders created by WD file sharing and photo apps:
cd /shares
find . -depth -name .wdmc -exec rm -rf {} \;
find . -depth -name .wdphotos -exec rm -rf {} \;
