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Turning off your NAS will save on electric costs and save your hard drives.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not a single drive failure is damn impressive.

[–] Bookmeat 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Only if you actually have it running that long. The whole thing is powered off most of the time.

[–] Entropywins 16 points 2 months ago

That's how I plan to live to 160...being powered off most of the time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure, and while that is not something commercial deployments can do, it's reasonable for personal home NAS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depending on when you want access to your nas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I have a 2 drive NAS that only takes a few seconds to spin up when I want to use it.