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Owenboy89

When was last time your NAS went into auto sleep mode

NAS hardware

Hello everyone.

About a year ago I started using my first Synology NAS DS918+.

So I thought I would do a fun post for us all to think back and remember when the last time our Synology NAS went into sleep mode....as it's so known for never turning on.

Mine was when I first got the NAS, I run my NAS on a Anker Solix and a smart plug, allowing my NAS to pull power from the Solix and the Solix recharges on a schedule on a from the smart plug on eco7 overnight (for people who don't know what eco7 is, it's a 7 hour slot over night where electricity is cheaper).......So for the first month my NAS and Solix were in the living room....I hadn't put any data on it. I had been upgrading its fans, RAM, and adding a huge amount of cache memory, but hadn't gotten around to starting to move data. And I would come home from work, and every time it was in sleep mode. But the moment I added data and the Plex library, it's been running 24/7 for an entire year.

Have fun everyone, no need for nasty posts

Posted Apr 3, 2026, 4:55 PM UTC

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