Computer Audio Asylum

Both of mine are powered ON 24/7. No sleep

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They support Wake on LAN but I leave them powered ON 24/7.

My Mac Mini M1 music server is powered ON 24/7 and never sleeps. It draws such little power so why not? In fact, its set up to automatically re-login and re-launch Roon music server software if there's a power glitch. I used to run the Mac Mini on a UPS but no longer need to as the newer Macs and macOS are so resilient to corruption from power glitches.

This is not the case with the Linux based Synology NAS which I also run 24/7 as a Roon music server. NAS volumes have been known to suffer corruption if there's an abrupt AC power outage so I keep my NAS on a UPS. The UPS is set up so it signals the NAS if UPS battery is running low. The signal from the UPS causes the NAS to initiate a 'graceful shutdown' before the UPS battery is depleted.





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