I have recently purchased a My Book Live external wireless HD and have set up my shares and back up weekly. My question is whether it is safe to leave My Book HD on 24/7? I am thinking I need to probably shut it down when it is not in use. I don’t want to damage it or cause it to prematurely die by over use. When signing into My Book Live on the network I did not notice a shutdown option and I don’t want to just unplug it to make it go off. What do you guys do? How do you use your device?
Every NAS I have stays on 24/7.
You can leave it on 24/7, but if you need to turn it off you must select the option to shut it down from the UI before pulling the cable.
In my case, I use the MBL as a music/video server & am now leaving it active, sortof.
I’ve found that if I shutdown the MBL at night & then “turn on” the MBL in the morning, I cannot play music longer than about 100 min; but is able to do so by just disconnecting & reconnecting the ehternet cable later.
Am now experimenting with just doing a reboot & finding that the MBL will send the music files to my AVR for hours; BUT that don’t work in the morning if the reboot was done the previous evening prior to going to bed. Will be checking if there is an effective 12 limit for the reboot & playing time since I’ve found that the reboot can be effective for 3-4 hrs in the afternoon.
Looks like I do have a strange condition on the 3T MBL replacement & will wait for the April firmware before doing an update. My need to reboot often cannot be considered a 24/7 MBL.
Side note for the reboot is that using the UI to reboot works differently & ineffectively versus using SSH. I use Cryptoterm as it is freeware for home user single user; haven’t tried PUTTY.
Hi my NAS is always ON 24/7, but be carefully if you enable SSH or your NAS and your router has open ports (22), usually , that’s not common, so you should be safe.
I deliberate enable my NAS SSH service and opened and forwarded the ssh port (20) of my ISP router , so I was able to login remotely and back up my office PC automatically, but I noticed that people from different part of the world try to hack my NAS, so I had to do more work on my router to limit remote access only to my office IP.
