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PatZ1989

PatZ1989

PatZ1989

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I have some files i am forever copying back and forth between computers, so was tihnking about just getting one of these, but my question is about power consumption. is it costly to have one of these sitting their 24/7

I would assume it doesnt need much as all it needs to do is run a hard disk, but if anyone has any real world experience and knows, would appreciate it

Thanks
 
The box for my ReadyNAS Duo says "35W typical" power consumption with two drives.

Edit to add:
You can set it to spin down the disks after a period of inactivity if you want to save power.
 
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Each watt will cost about £1 to run 24/7 for a year if that helps. Obviously depending on the electricity tariff you're on.
 
No, it's not very costly. A single drive NAS will use around 15W, and will spin down most of the time it's idle anyway.

You're probably looking at less than £5 a year.
 
Nas

My Netgear Nas can be configured to spin down the drives after a period of inactivity. It can also be configured to switch off at night then back on next morning. Connected to a gigabyte switch, its a fantastic bit of kit especially with two drives with automatic redundancy.
 
this is what i wanted to hear, think my new backup drive is going to be a NAS rather then another HDD, was just aware that it being on 24/7 might be more expensive then first though

Cheers guys
 
Actually new question then, recommended NAS drives for home network? i would like to stick 2 disks in it and be able to use all the storage (the netgear ones want to automatically backup to the second disk?)
 
I just got thte drobo, it can set to spin down after 15 min,, 30min, 60min etc etc.

In fact, I got it unboxed, plugged in, and accessible via my iMac via wifi within 15 mins. That's from opening the box, unwrapping, putting drives inside, go to my Mac.

15 mins!!!!!!
 
ive got this down to either the readyNAS duo or the Synology ds210J, but the features are pretty similar and without having one infront of me i cnat decide betwene the two, one big favor for the syn one is that you dont have to use RAID, in the readynas you HAVE to have raid configured, the only work around is to RAID 0 two volumes on one physical disk
 
Hi PatZ1989,

Did you get a NAS in the end? Would be interested in which one you went for? Currently tempted by the DUO as they have a free disk offer at the moment. Means I can get a Duo with 2 x 2TB drives for ~£240.

Cheers
 
You can work out the maximum cost if you know what you're paying for your electricity and the power rating of the device. A 35 W device would use up ~25 kWh per month if left on all the time with no energy saving features. If you're paying 10p per kWh then that's £2.50 per month.

I'd imagine most NASs have spin-down modes and stuff so that they use up far less power overnight etc.
 
lurkio said:
I have a qnap 409 NAS and I love it , low power and disk spindown for energy savings
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I have the 2 disk version of this (unsurprisingly the 209) ... works really well and my electricity bill has gone down quite a bit compared with when I was running a full server 24/7

TimeMachine support for the Mac and drive spin down work really nicely for me with the new 3.3 firmware.
 
in the end bought the new ds211 from synology, great bit of kit. everything backing up to ti running the applications so its all accesible from anywhere. very happy bunny, recommend to anyone
 
How are you finding the DS211 after some usage mate? I am thinking of ordering it too but holding off to see what the DS211+ offers.

Is it easy to get set up, secure, share folders etc? I have had a play with the synology online demo and it seems good.
 
Yeah easy as it can be, it formats a disk n then you create volumes, set the permissions etc. can us windows ACL if you prefer but using the diskstations authentication is fine

The apps are pretty good, the download station could do with some extra features but considering its purpose is to be a NAS you cant fault it really
 
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