NAS - drive sleep/spindown or not?

[azazel1024]

Spin-down/sleep for 6 hours a day. That's what made sense to me, rather than frequent start/stop.

I wish the consumer/SOHO NASes sleepy-time scheduler would postpone the shutdown if a backup is in process.

'Twould be nice. I've toyed with it under windows, but I tend to prefer to leave any kind of sleep delay off. I have had it where windows is fusy and doesn't want to idle to sleep because it says background tasks are running, when realistically they aren't. I just schedule my back-ups appropriately so that they would be finished long before any kind of sleep (scheduled for 12:15am, and I think the longest back-up I have seen took about 6 minutes shoving around 80GBs of data to the server. Sleep is scheduled for 12:45am. Wake-up at 6:45am. Daily Defender auto-updates at 12:30am. Manual "other" windows updates. Auto-reboot every Monday at 6:46am...because windows).

 

[stevech]

yes, I have my NAS scheduled to do backups starting at 11PM. It's done well before the 1AM shutdown.