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Hello FD, I feel your frustration but you are going against one of the core ideas of what a NAS is about - an always on, centrally accessible file server. I do think it *should* be possible to do what you ask and I think it could be done with a little programming. But I'm not a programmer and am unfamiliar with the Thecus capabilities. It might just be that it's not possible as, if it were, then Thecus (or their customers) might see it as not securing the device adequately from external malicious nasties. Keep searching - maybe you'll find what you want, but it might be better to just simply press the power button on the box. Cheers.

Hi FD, Perhaps a NAS wasn't the ideal choice for your particular needs then? Perhaps a desktop USB HDD would have been a better choice? Or do you need to access it over the home network / internet? As a NAS owner myself, I'm aware of some of the functionality built into some of these devices. Normally, you would access and manage these functions using your web browser. You don't mention what make/model you have but a lot of them these days have the ability to set power schedules. For example, you can set up a schedule to have the NAS off during the day while you're out of the house and no-one's using it; power back up just before you arrive home (assuming you're pretty regular); and then power off while you're sleeping. Sure, this isn't true power off - its a low power / sleep mode - but it does consume much less power, generate less heat, etc than the standard operating mode. Mine is flexible like that but I don't use it, as the act of spinning up/down the hard drives is quite taxing on the HDD platters and could cause HDD failure sooner than you'd like (I had a failure once, but thanks to RAID, I didn't lose any data and had the faulty drive replaced under warranty). Its really down to personal preference. Maybe there's an idea for you? Just a thought. Cheers,

Golly! Someone has finally managed to put together enough tech in one body to show us a truly futuristic camera! Looks really good.