NASLite Network Attached Storage

I have couple of PCs running Naslite, they are on all the time. Can they use any of the power saving modes that are available to Windows PCs ? I would like them to go into standby overnight (spin down disks, slow down/turn off fans, etc), but then come back up to speed when access is required, eg a Wake On Lan or similar.

Anyone know if that's possible ?

Many thanks,

Des.

I don't know about that. S3 power save would be good. It just use 5 volt stand by power from the power supply to keep the ram power. It seems like the computer is off. No fans or LED's to show it's in a sleep mode. Hard drive off too. Just the ram still has power.

I don't think NASlite does this. But not sure. I do think I have my BIOS set up for S3 power in one of my HASLite HDD. It stays on all the time. But it my be something on my LAN all ways pinging it, or somthing like that. I don't know.

That would be good on this one because I turn it on and off by hand a lot. Just use it every once in a wile for backups and things.

I just checked my BIOS and S3 power saving is on.

Then went in NASLite web page under "Server Message Log" It shows this:



But I never seen my system go in a S3 power down mode. I don't know how long it waits for nothing to happen. I my test this by unplugging the Ethernet cable to it. That my keep it from going in S3 sleep mode.

-Raymond Day

I did test out the sleep going on. But it never goes to sleep. I unplugged every thing from the box for about 24 hours. Just power to it. No Ethernet. I then pluged in a monitor and keyboard and Ethernet. Press the sleep button on the keyboard and nothing happends. On Windows it will go in S3 sleep mode with that key.

What would start the S3 sleep on NASLite if it will do S3 sleep?

-Raymond Day

I read up some of the other sections of the forum (something I should have done before posting the question ! ) and it seems that Naslite does not support any kind of power save mode.

This seems a shame to me, I don'y understand why it wouldn't.

Here's what I would like:

Naslite runs on the PC, after a user specified time period the hard drives would spin down and the machine would go into a 'hibernate' state with everything suspended to RAM. The network card would need to stay awake. When data is requested by another machine on the nextwork Naslite would 'wake up', spin up the disk(s) then serve the data. The clock would be reset to count down to the next hibernation.

This would save shutting down and starting up the machine continually.

Come on Naslite guys, can we add that to the feature list sometime soon ?

You can set the BIOS to put parts of the machine to a dormant state. The only thing you'll have to do is turn the status probes timing to something different than 1 minute (default) since that will obviously wake everything up.

Milege may vary since not all boards are made the same, but it is possible to do on the BIOS level.