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NAS set up guide question

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perdomot

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I'm going to be upgrading my rig in Oct. and will be turning my old hardware into a NAS to store my files. What I don't know is how to set up the NAS so that it goes to sleep after a few minutes of no activity and how to wake it up when I want to transfer files for storage. I figure this will save me money rather than keeping it on all the time. Can someone advise me on a guide to do this? Thanks.
 
What software do you intend to run on the NAS?

Also, depending on how often you need to access these files constantly cycling them isnt the best for HDD.
 
Old rigs are not the best for power costs. I am starting to dig the little Intel Atom boards for "home sans" however. 30-40 watts is hard to sneeze at and a complete unit is only $200-300. Anyway, I would estimate how much electricity would cost to run the machine and use that to figure out if it is cheaper reuse the old rig vs buying a new low power unit designed for that purpose.
 
It depends on how you want the backup to be done on your system.

As an example, Windows Home Server (WHS) does not go to full sleep at all since it uses the down time to backup the Network computers.
If you want a fix schedule there is an Add-On to WHS that can do a forced On and Off with scheduling Hibernation.
http://mswhs.com/2008/03/18/add-in-lightsout/

Otherwise, Windows XP is a Good alternative since it easy to tune it to go to sleep when it is idles.
 
Going to be running W2K for the OS. I want to use the system to back up files about once a week so I want to be able to bring it out of sleep mode, copy over the files and let it go back to sleep until the next time.
 
I would not bother with sleep for a once-a-week job. I'd just shut it down and power it back up. You could probably achieve what you want with Wake On Lan (WOL) and a cron job from the desktop.
 
alot of business class desktops have options to wake on schedule.

you can of course shutdown -s to take it down.

probably last longer if you just leave it running 24x7 imo
 
Originally posted by: Emulex
alot of business class desktops have options to wake on schedule.

you can of course shutdown -s to take it down.

probably last longer if you just leave it running 24x7 imo
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leaving it running for 168 hours to do a one hour job is a huge waste of energy IMO. It is old hardware with no real value. He could by several replacements with the money saved.
 
drives fail with a very mundane regularity. There is no rhyme or reason to it, no magic formula, nothing works every time. Don't kid yourself otherwise. I do data recovery for all sorts of folks who trust any or them.
 
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