Keeping it off the majority of the time defeats the purpose of using something like this.
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Yeah, NAS is meant to be on 24/7.
The NAS owner said the 4TB HGST drives have only accumulated 6,000 hours since their deployment, translating to about 600 hours or about 25 days annually.
I thought the NAS was being turned off on the weekends or overnight, but in reality it has under 7% of uptime.
Also, I've found power cycling stuff is when it fails.
I've had machines and many drives running for 10 years, only rebooting as necessary, and never powering off.