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Just curious, should I reboot my NAS regularly as I do with my computer? I think it has been running for 7-8 months without any reboots or power shutdowns.
I never reboot the 102, apart from when I do firmware updates. The 204 is powered up/down overnight (Mindnight - 6am) Monday - Friday on schedule. This is a routine I have since I realised many years ago that most of my power outages happened in this time period. Now with UPS's I do not have the same issues, but my habit continues... call it being a bit greener, I suppose.
In use, I see no difference between them, so I suspect that regular rebooting does not make any difference to performance or reliability at all.
Some users leave theirs running for years between reboots.
Most users though would reboot more regularly than you do e.g. to install firmware updates, to get new features and other enhancements, bug fixes, security fixes etc.
There's no need to reboot the NAS regularly though it can be a useful step in troubleshooting a problem if you are encountering one.
I never reboot the 102, apart from when I do firmware updates. The 204 is powered up/down overnight (Mindnight - 6am) Monday - Friday on schedule. This is a routine I have since I realised many years ago that most of my power outages happened in this time period. Now with UPS's I do not have the same issues, but my habit continues... call it being a bit greener, I suppose.
In use, I see no difference between them, so I suspect that regular rebooting does not make any difference to performance or reliability at all.
We use memory for caching to improve performance (and free up the memory when needed), so if you reboot that cache will be emptied so in some cases performance may even decrease temporarily as it has to build up a cache again.
