Turning off your NAS will save on electric costs and save your hard drives.
  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    Keeping it off the majority of the time defeats the purpose of using something like this.

      • hushable@lemmy.world
        14·
        2 months ago

        The NAS owner said the 4TB HGST drives have only accumulated 6,000 hours since their deployment, translating to about 600 hours or about 25 days annually.

        I thought the NAS was being turned off on the weekends or overnight, but in reality it has under 7% of uptime.