Wake up ReadyNas by network ?

Just bought an NV+ Reasynas and also missing the feature to put the box in sleep-mode. Wonder how we can let the box run all day with such a noisy ventilator.

If WOL is not possible, would it be possible to switch off the ventilator when no activity os going one ? That would at least help to let the NAS work all time.

BR
Rolf

rolf_ziegler wrote:
Just bought an NV+ Reasynas and also missing the feature to put the box in sleep-mode. Wonder how we can let the box run all day with such a noisy ventilator. If WOL is not possible, would it be possible to switch off the ventilator when no activity os going one ? That would at least help to let the NAS work all time. BR Rolf

You can spin-down your disks to lower the fan speed to minimum.

Can the NV be set to startup when power is restored?

If so, there are lots of devices you can use over a network to cut and restore power to it.

It wouldn't be hard to do a wake on lan either
NIC and bios support is all you need.

-rg

If we wanted to hook up some network connected relays to the power switch of the NV+ what would be the best place to start? On the motherboard? On the power switch itself?

The goal is to be able to turn on a Readynas remotely after extended power outage. None of the currently shipping ReadyNAS units support this functionality via WOL.

Thanks,
-Vince

Give us Wake On Lan, please!

I recently bought a ReadyNAS NV+.

It took me a while to get it installed and working, but now it seems to be doing just fine.

The NAS sits in the basement, with a Netgear wireless router/DSL modem, base station for the wireless phone and my main computer; all those are hooked up to a big (for domestic use) UPS. Up in the living room is a Vaio UMPC connected to our stereo and a MacBook. I had been mounting the NAS disc as an SMB share to play music through the Vaio amplified by the stereo.

Then I bought a Logitech Squeezebox, so I installed Squeezecenter on the NAS, and it now streams our music collection up to the Squeezebox, which is much easier to carry from room to room or out into the garden.

I've set the NAS to turn on at 18h00 each weekday, and turn off again at 03h00 so it's available when I get home from work until after I've gone to sleep, but it would be great to be able to use WOL to turn on the NAS, instead.

With the set-up as it is now, the NAS is on every day, probably used about 50% of the time. I'd rather have it off by default, and be able to wake it up as and when I want, saving on power and hours of disc usage.

The NV+ does not support Wake-on-LAN, hardware limitation.

chirpa wrote:
The NV+ does not support Wake-on-LAN, hardware limitation.

Boo Hiss

OK, I can live without it, but when just about every x86 architecture board from $50 and up has WOL, I think it's a bit short-sighted to have left it out of the NV+ hardware.

I suppose a workaround would be to use the WOL on the main computer; then when that computer is awake, use it to control the robot arm to pick up a piece of dowel and poke the power switch on the NV+, then power down the computer. ;)

K.

Keith_Beef wrote:
OK, I can live without it, but when just about every x86 architecture board from $50 and up has WOL

The NV+ is custom Sparc hardware. The ReadyNAS Pro, which is x86 based, does support WOL.

chirpa wrote:
Keith_Beef wrote: OK, I can live without it, but when just about every x86 architecture board from $50 and up has WOL The NV+ is custom Sparc hardware. The ReadyNAS Pro, which is x86 based, does support WOL.

So, leaving out WOL was a marketing decision to keep the price down by $5.

The thing is, WOL really is a very convenient feature in home networking. You add some really simple switch to the HTPC interface to send the magic packet to the NAS (like "wake up my media vault").

Simple configuration, simple operation. Even simpler that what I've done for now, with a scheduled wake-up every day at around 15h30 and shutdown at 03h00.

K.