How to Save Money and Extend Disk Life of a ReadyNAS Using Disk Spin Down
Green is in. And everyone wants to save money on their power bill. If your hard drives last longer as a result, then that’s an added benefit (mean time between failures; reduce “time”, reduce failures).
With your Netgear ReadyNAS network attached storage device you can set it to automatically spin down the hard drives after a defined period of inactivity.
This short video shows how. (Uploaded in HD, easier to read the screen if you view in larger format.)
