@smoochy said:
@trumpy81 said:
leaving the NAS on 24/7 wont increase your power bill a great deal.Well, that is not exactly true for most parts of the world. Electricity is not as cheap as in the US.
I am using my 415 mostly for only a few hours a day, downloading stuff and maybe watching a movie. So if I want to have it sleeping for 20h a day, that should be ok. Having my 415+ (with 4 hdds) in hibernate mode uses around 30W. Having the NAS and plex running it uses 55W.
The following calculation should be quite fair:
I do have to pay 0.26 Euro per kWh
(25W x 20h wasted uptime x 365 days x 0.26Euro) / 1000 = 47.45 Euro WASTED per year.
So I am throwing around 50 Euro a year down the drain. Just because you feel the necessity to have a permanent internet connection.
There is absolutely no need for that. Connect to the internet, to download movie posters. Maybe once per day connect to the plex internet server to check licences. But don’t waste peoples money and electricity for a nonsense 24/7 internet connection.
Then schedule a task (Control Panel - Scheduled tasks) which stops and starts PMS per your schedule. Once PMS is stopped, your HDDs will sleep
To stop:
"/var/packages/Plex Media Server/scripts/start-stop-status" stop
To start
"/var/packages/Plex Media Server/scripts/start-stop-status" start
Be advised: Doing this will cause the actual run-state to be out of sync with Package Center.