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Aspirant

Mar 30, 2016

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ReadyNAS 516 self power on configuration

Hello, Yesterday I manually switched off the ReadyNAS: a maintenance work to the electric power was planned in the afternoon. My plan was to switch it on this morning, but the readynas was up and ru...

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mdgm-ntgr
Mar 30, 2016
Last state is the setting for ARM units, so the 516 wasn't affected by the bug that was fixed in 6.5.0 Beta 2.

x86_64 units such as the 516 are set to POWER ON after a power failure. There isn't a way to override this except for the way StephenB mentioned.

JennC

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Mar 30, 2016

Hello fdebiasio,

I believe none.

Power State

If the power supply is interrupted due to a power failure, the system returns to its last state once the power supply is restored:

If the system was powered on at the time of the power failure, the system powers on when the power supply is restored.
If the system was powered off at the time of the power failure, the system remains off when the power supply is restored.

There was a reported problem on this that some NAS units do not go back to its last state after power failure and BETA 6.5.0-T338 (Beta 2) included a fix for it.

Welcome to the community!

Regards,

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Mar 30, 2016
JennC wrote:

I believe none.

That's true, but there is a workaround. If the NAS is connected to and monitoring a UPS, then it will shut itself down when it receives a power-critical message from the UPS. It will then stay shut down when power is restored.
- mdgm-ntgr
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Mar 30, 2016
  Last state is the setting for ARM units, so the 516 wasn't affected by the bug that was fixed in 6.5.0 Beta 2.
  
  x86_64 units such as the 516 are set to POWER ON after a power failure. There isn't a way to override this except for the way StephenB mentioned.
- fdebiasio
  Aspirant
  Mar 31, 2016
  Having to add a UPS just to let the ReadyNAS stay in its power state is a bit frustrating. Anyway I want to thank you all, mdgm, StephenB and JennC, for your valuable help. Francesco
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Mar 31, 2016
    fdebiasio wrote:
    Having to add a UPS just to let the ReadyNAS stay in its power state is a bit frustrating.
    
    Agreed. Though I think you should have a UPS anyway. Unexpected power loss can result in file system corruption/data loss.