@Werner wrote:

There are as many individual opinions as there are article writers on the topic of durability of hard drives in NAS operation.

I have been using a WD Red with 4 TB in a Synology NAS for over 7 years, which is configured for maximum energy saving.

In addition to the automatic night-time total shutdown with automatic reboot in the morning, there is also the hard drive sleep if it is not used for more than 10 minutes.

And I don’t have a UPS either.

There have never been any problems with it in practice.

But the most important thing is that a total loss of the NAS does not also mean a total loss of the data.

Of course, I also have a backup of the NAS data.

Good morning @Werner

Thanks for sharing your experiences!

Do you see how exciting that is?

I received 9 answers and they are all different.

I think I’ll add total shutdown to my energy schedule.

Since I have to live more economically, your tip would of course be practical for me because I wouldn’t have to buy a UPS.

And I’m already looking forward to the HDD’s lifespan of 7 years.

Best regards

Prior

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@cslu wrote:

Nobody here will be able to tell you why your HDD really broke.

I currently have three NAS in operation.

The oldest of the three has been running with 4× 8TB Seagate IronWolf since 2017.

Two of the original four IronWolves are still running, the other two have failed over the course of seven years and have been replaced.

With one of the two newer ones, the first of four disks failed in less than a month. There is that too.

Especially with external hard drives, we often see sudden failures with drives that have runtimes in the low three-digit (or even double-digit) hour range. Shocks will probably play a big role.

On the other hand, I have seen intact consumer grade HDDs in some HP desktop PCs that have been running 24/7 for more than a decade. (I think the highest number I’ve ever seen with my own eyes was something in the region of 140,000 hours. Standard 3.5″ consumer HDD, I can’t remember the manufacturer, in some standard off-the-shelf PC.)

Good morning @cslu

Thank you. I am happy about your experiences! Now I can put the event into perspective better for myself.

I actually had a similar experience with my desktop.

Some of the installed HDDs have been running since 2012! That’s why I doubted my user skills when the NAS HDD died.

Best regards

Prior

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@Prio wrote:

Hello again @WalterB and @user109

Thank you again for the purchase recommendation and the comparison option.

I can definitely do something with that.

Kind regards

@Prio see post 8 of mine.

Please always make sure that your NAS is always up to date with the latest software, as there have been many critical software errors recently.

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@user109 wrote:

@Prio wrote:

Hello again @WalterB and @user109

Thank you again for the purchase recommendation and the comparison option.

I can definitely do something with that.

Kind regards

@Prio see post 8 of mine.

Please always make sure that your NAS is always up to date with the latest software, as there have been many critical software errors recently.

Good morning again @user109

It helped me that you took the trouble to find this homepage with the UPS comparison for me.

Thank you very much.

I usually check for updates every 7-14 days.

There were posts in the QNAP forum that a new update caused the error with the HDD.

I can neither confirm nor deny that.

Best regards

Prior

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Prio

This is my standby setting because I always need the NAS to access externally and this setting has worked for years.

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      WalterB wrote:

      @Prio

      This is my standby setting because I always need the NAS to access externally and this setting has worked for years.

      NAS Standby.jpg

      Hello @WalterB

      Thank you for your efforts!

      This really helps me.

      I haven’t configured remote access, but I have shared some of the data in my home network

      so that I can access them with my cell phone, laptop and UHD TV box.

      As a precaution, I have preset a VPN connection or whatever it is called on the IB3.

      Best regards

      Prior

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        I’m really angry right now.

        I wrote long texts for everyone who helped me and then something happened with my browser or with the SC interface… In any case, everything is gone. This hurts me right now because I still had questions and wanted to expressly thank you. Then not. 😞

        How do I actually have to assign the solutions?

        I find all solutions good and helpful!

        Should I enter all of them as solutions?

        I don’t know.

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