Question Is Wake-on-Wan a good feature of NAS?

[hwcheung]

With WOW, I can keep NAS sleeping most of the time. Only when I need it, I will wake it up. After use, I will put it to sleep mode.

The hard drive do not need to work 24/7. A normal Seagate Barracuda may live longer than an Ironwolf.

Is it a good way to use a NAS? Any advice. Thanks.

 

[kanewolf]

With WOW, I can keep NAS sleeping most of the time. Only when I need it, I will wake it up. After use, I will put it to sleep mode.

The hard drive do not need to work 24/7. A normal Seagate Barracuda may live longer than an Ironwolf.

Is it a good way to use a NAS? Any advice. Thanks.

Are you talking about a homemade NAS or a commercial NAS? I would let a commercial NAS handle disk spin-down automatically. With my Synology, any access will automatically spin up the disks.

 

[USAFRet]

Wake On WAN is accessing it from outside your local LAN.

Will you be wanting to do this?

 

[hwcheung]

Are you talking about a homemade NAS or a commercial NAS? I would let a commercial NAS handle disk spin-down automatically. With my Synology, any access will automatically spin up the disks.

I am talking homemade NAS like Synology.

Oh, a disk is not working if not accessed. So it will not help a drive to live longer by keeping it in sleep mode.

 

[hwcheung]

Wake On WAN is accessing it from outside your local LAN.

Will you be wanting to do this?

Yes, I want to keep it in sleep mode. If I want to read any data from it, I will wake it up. Save power and life.

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, I want to keep it in sleep mode. If I want to read any data from it, I will wake it up. Save power and life.

Not an answer....


Will you be wanting to access this from outside your house LAN?
Drive sleep is a whole different thing.

 

[kanewolf]

I am talking homemade NAS like Synology.

Oh, a disk is not working if not accessed. So it will not help a drive to live longer by keeping it in sleep mode.

Synology is not a "homemade" NAS. An old PC is a homemade NAS.
A commercial NAS will spin-down the disks, but is not sleeping in the same way a PC is.

 

[hwcheung]

Not an answer....


Will you be wanting to access this from outside your house LAN?
Drive sleep is a whole different thing.

I just confirmed that Synology has a feature called WOL that allow us to wake it up from shut down. Asustor has a feature called WOW that allow us to wake it up from sleep mode.

Either one is good. But WOW is better than WOL. Because I can access it when I am not at home.

 

[USAFRet]

I just confirmed that Synology has a feature called WOL that allow us to wake it up from shut down. Asustor has a feature called WOW that allow us to wake it up from sleep mode.

Either one is good. But WOW is better than WOL. Because I can access it when I am not at home.

And this is why I asked.

Accessing this from outside your internal LAN can be very very hazardous.

Anything exposed to the outside world gets access requests every day, all day long.

If you don't have a really good grasp on the security for this, your NAS and everything else in your LAN is subject to hacking.


Waking from sleep is a whole different thing, and trivially done.

 

[hwcheung]

Synology is not a "homemade" NAS. An old PC is a homemade NAS.
A commercial NAS will spin-down the disks, but is not sleeping in the same way a PC is.

I am not sure if sleep can save the life of a drive better than spin-down. Though it can save power at least.

 

[hwcheung]

And this is why I asked.

Accessing this from outside your internal LAN can be very very hazardous.

Anything exposed to the outside world gets access requests every day, all day long.

If you don't have a really good grasp on the security for this, your NAS and everything else in your LAN is subject to hacking.


Waking from sleep is a whole different thing, and trivially done.

It is interesting Asustor provides us this WOW feature. It is so exciting. But it is not safe, per your advice.

 

[kanewolf]

It is interesting Asustor provides us this WOW feature. It is so exciting. But it is not safe, per your advice.

They might use that term to wake other devices on the LAN. Many people want to wake PCs but WOL only works on LAN. WOW might be a service to wake other devices.

 

[hwcheung]

They might use that term to wake other devices on the LAN. Many people want to wake PCs but WOL only works on LAN. WOW might be a service to wake other devices.

Some YouTubes say a NAS can replace Google Drive. But, if NAS cannot be accessed outside home, how can it replace Google Drive?

 

[USAFRet]

Some YouTubes say a NAS can replace Google Drive. But, if NAS cannot be accessed outside home, how can it replace Google Drive?

You can access a NAS from outside your LAN.

You just have to know the security dangers, and ow to mitigate them.

GoogleDrive does that for you.