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I have the same problem with WDMyCloud (original version). Copying photos to the unit starts out ok, then within a few minutes gets slower and slower – down to kbs copying. It tells me its going to take 3 days to copy my photos to the WDMyCloud (using Freefile Sync to do the copy). BTW, I’ve upgraded to Windows 11 – so that doesn’t help any with the problem either. Really frustrating and sounds pretty hopeless after reading through all these responses.

You might also take a look at your resource monitor and watch the CPU usage for any strange behaviour, especially the Maximum Frequency percentage. It does sound like something could be throttling your CPU. For example, if a CPU gets too hot, Windows 7 will throttle CPU usage to keep the temp down. Motherboards going bad or getting hot (for whatever reason) have been known to have this affect on system performance. Everything will still work, but your CPU will never climb above 20-40% Maximum Frequency reading.

BTW, I have been running Win7 32bit on a ASUS eeePC 1000H with 2 gig ram and a 7200 rpm drive for over two years now. Is it a speed demon? No. But I use it daily in a corporate environment. I run a small SQLExpress database on it, Word, Excel and a browser with usually 3-10 windows open at the same time. I even occasionally run Chief Architect Home Designer on it – which is slow on rendering, but quite useable for shorter periods of time. I don’t think your hardware is suffering from too little memory or capacity – though your graphics card may be playing a role with Coral Draw.

My simplistic approach to partitioning:

Hard Drive 0: (Can you even buy anything less than 300GB+ today :>)
C: Drive – 50 GB OS Partition
D: Drive – 250+ GB Data Partition
Comments: Move the user folders (including AppData folder) to the D: Drive.
This leaves plenty of room for program applications and the swap file on the C: Drive.

Hard Drive 1: (I prefer this to be circa 500GB+)
E: Drive
E:Data – Copy / backup of the D: Drive using automated backup program via Task Scheduler on every login (runs invisible in background).
E:OSbkup – OS image backups of the C:Drive. I use ‘Image for Windows’ to make OS image, run once a week as a background task via Task Scheduler. Keep 3 versions of image backups.
E:Data 2 – Extra data storage for master copies of program files, space for VMs, monthly and periodic backup of OS image, etc.

External USB Hard Drive: (I use a 750GB SATAII drive here with a SATAII connector)
Y: Drive
Y:Data – copy of E:Data
Y:OSbkup – Copy of E:OSbkup
Y:Data2 – Copy of E:Data2
Copy using automated backup program via Task Scheduler on every login (runs invisible in background).