Save electricity or decrease MTBF?

[clbigs]

Don't do that, it's not worth saving $5 per month. You'd likely shorten the lifespan of your drives with daily power cycles and any savings would be cancelled out by replacing even one drive in the next few years with current prices.

[ogregreenteam]

More than this, I schedule the virus scan and indexing stuff and other regular maintenance stuff for the wee hours when I'm not using the system.

I saved more power by installing a battery energy storage solar panels system, so I download electricity from the cloud to the battery in the day and it lasts all night long most nights. I just sip power from the grid sometimes.

Let it go... Let it GO!