must switch off at night... or must be always ON and available in Local Network 24h/24h?
NAS systems like Iomega/Lenovo, Buffalo or Seagate... In everyday use or stand by --- must switch off at night... or must be always ON and available in Local Network 24h/24h?


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It will depend on the NAS. Many have their own power settings. Personally, I need/want my NAS on 24/7 as it is a backup drive that has many scheduled jobs running on it and I don't want a backup to fail if it is powered down and can't spin up fast enough to be available when backups need to run. Plus, I also host media from my NAS to Plex and want the content to be available all the time too.
If you do need/want power saving, then you will run to schedule jobs with a pre-script (probably) to allow enough time for the NAS to wake up when a backup job kicks off. Otherwise, if it's sleeping and doesn't wake up fast enough, the backup may just fail because the disk is not available.
Here's a screenshot of a WD MyCloud 4TB NAS... under the settings tab, there is an energy savers option that I had to disable.
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I leave my Synology NAS on 24/7; it powers down the HDDs when they are not needed. One reason I do this is that it is under the stairs and a little difficult to get to its on/off switch.
Ian
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