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Last question; how would I get it to wake when someone’s trying to access a file on it?
You would have to script something based on whatever service is actually being used, or maybe node red? In the past, way back, I used something like this that is just a simple web page that the user has to click a button to start the machine - there are a bunch of these https://github.com/Trugamr/wol - the web server is on the lan with the NAS so can send the magic packet, but the page can obviously be served over the internet.
So, realistically, I’m probably looking for a commercial NAS that’ll spin the drives down when nothing is accessing them and spin them up once something attempts access.
Because I can’t think of another way to do this.
Maybe you could just spin down/turn off the disks? That will reduce power consumption a lot and they'll get up once requested.
So more like a commercial NAS box and less like a repurposed Dell server.
Why?
Power consumption.
Plus, I don’t think an enterprise grade server is designed to spin down the disks when they’re not in use.
You can just do that yourself regardless of what the server was intended to do, with a cronjob for example. You can also set an idle time after which it spins down with hdparm but that doesn't always work for different reasons.
How do I set a cronjob on a Hyper-V host?
No idea, does it pass the drives through?
Not with a RAID controller, no.
IDK if these support IT mode or the like, but yes, hardware RAID makes this hard.
Usually not, no. With that in mind, it seems I’m looking for something more like a commercial NAS box and less like a repurposed Dell server.