Turning off your NAS will save on electric costs and save your hard drives.
Secret to longevity: keep it turned off 85% of the time.
Not a single drive failure is damn impressive.
Only if you actually have it running that long. The whole thing is powered off most of the time.
Sure, and while that is not something commercial deployments can do, it’s reasonable for personal home NAS.
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