Standby/powerdown mode?

[polomora]

Just finalizing my new NAS installation. I have an immediate question.

Does FreeNAS have a Standby/Powerdown mode. Seems a shame to have it running when it isn't needed, especially for a home installation.

I found this post here which addresses the issue:
http://http://serverfault.com/questions/352311/sleep-suspend-and-wol-on-freenas

Thanks,
Paul

 

[Stephens]

There are threads here addressing this. One thread on how to get it to shut down when there's no activity and then threads on WOL (Wake On LAN) to get it to wake up after shutdown. There's no generic answer that's going to work for everyone, but those things tell you which things to try.

 

[polomora]

Many thanks, I had searched earlier, but I'll look again.

 

[Stephens]

Maybe you searched within the forum. You're not the first person to not be able to find things that I find easily. So I'll just say right here what I do. First, I use Google, not the forum. Google indexes the forum, so why not let a search engine that has had millions of dollars poured into it do the heavy lifting? For instance, I'll do a search on "FreeNAS WOL". Or "FreeNAS shutdown no activity". I think those two Google searches will give you the threads you want.

 

[polomora]

Thanks Stephens,

WOL is easy enough, and I know it works with my PC hardware.

I don't need shutdown, I need suspend to ram, because I was hoping to also install SqueezeCenter, and starting up the box each from scratch to use the SqueezeBox would take too much time, especially when booting from a USB memory stick.

I haven't been able to find a definitive answer to whether suspend to ram is supported or not. I've found various statements like "it should be supported" or "AFAIK, it is supported", but no HOWTO-like instructions. The official FreeNAS documentation discusses powering down the disk after a timeout period, which would make minimal difference to a PC drawing 75W. Running 24/7 this would cost €150/year, and makes one of the NAS enclosures a more attractive proposition. I found this proposal fro nearly 2 years ago, I don't believe it has been implemented:
http://http://support.freenas.org/ticket/125

I discovered that it was supported in v0.7, and for some reason, was removed in v8. Pity, because I like the other NAS features, and the open architecture.

 

[Milhouse]

I discovered that it was supported in v0.7, and for some reason, was removed in v8. Pity, because I like the other NAS features, and the open architecture.

v8 and v0.7 are completely unrelated products - it wasn't removed from v8, it was never added. If you want the continuation of v0.7, it's now called NAS4Free and can be found here.