Leaving Synology on 24/7

It depends on which NAS you have. I have bought the DS213+ because this one offers a special low energy consuming standby mode. The NAS only requires some seconds (maybe 5) to answer again. Also you do not need to send a "wake on LAN" (WOL) call to it, but only require to just "talk" to it somehow, e.g. by sending a "ping" or by opening it in the web browser. For the case I do not have my smartphone at hand I did add a dummy webradio channel to my uniti and entered the NAS name. Trying to play this webradio certainly does not work, but it wakes up the NAS.

But: I had some problems getting this to work. After each firmware update the NAS did not fell asleep anymore. This was fixed automatically after some days somehow. Maybe the device had to reindex the music collection or something. So for some days I turned off the device manually instead, and woke it up by a WOL call. Maybe it did help to toggle the energy saving options to freshly apply them again.

In my NAS the settings are (translated from the german GUI) in the icon "Hardware", tab "General": Check the "WOL on LAN 1" option. 

On tab "Standby" (or "Suspend"? => "Ruhezustand") set the time for letting the hard disc(s) sleep (e.g. 20 minutes). Set the checkbox to let the system go to standby 60 seconds after hard disc sleep.

Make sure NOT to activate the logging for standby as this will prevent the system from sleeping.

Also there are a number of packages that must not be installed as the require the system to keep running without sleeping. The internal HDD cannot enter hibernation mode with:

* Webalizer
* Local Master Browser
* eMule
* Squeeze Center
* Mail Station
* Surveillance Station
* Log is enabled in [Media Server]>[Diagnose]
* DiskStation is making re-indexing for the multimedia files after upgrading 

(this was the info a synology support did mail me for an older DSM version. So maybe this info is not up to date anymore.)

I leave mine on 24/7 and have never had an issue.

When I used to work away from home I would schedule it to come on at 7pm and shutdown at midnight each day during the week. This worked flwalessly as well.

as an aside, I have set-up Auto Block IP (in the DSM control panel) to block IPs after 3 failed login attempts. I probably get about one attempted hack a month blocked. This has provided a bit more security and peace of mind with it being on 24/7.

Regards

Nick

I have set the hard drive to sleep after 20 minutes, and for the fan to come on only when the temperature rises too much. It sleeps all day and wakes up at 4 am when the UnitiServe does its daily differential backup.

So I have found that my Synology will "sleep" (the only front panel light on is the blue light) if my UnitiServe is off-line.  But if my UnitiServe is online, there seems to be enough activity that the Synology nas never sleeps.  This seems pretty binary -- power-down the uServe and the Synology is quiet; turn it back on, and the Synology has enough activity to prevent it from sleeping/hibernating/etc.

Any ideas?

I used to leave my QNAP NAS on 24/7. Since June I scheduled it to turn on only in the evening. It needs only 2-3 minutes to get ready for serving music to the NDS.

Hi

I leave my Synology powered 24/7 (one of the sales points was/is the low power consumption).

The only time I have experienced a problem is on the odd occasion when we have a power cut and the Synology changes its IP address. Not a catastrophe, just a pain in the derriere!

Just fix its IP address and the problem goes away.

Amen. If you don't fix its IP address you can end up with all sorts of problems, with the streamer not being able to find the server etc etc etc. 

Fixing the IP address of your nas and any other servers on your network really helps ensure that you're not constantly pulling your hair out with networked music at home. (I have too little hair as it is.)