EX2 Ultra and power down

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud EX2
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I have just set up my new My Cloud EX2 Ultra 8TB device. Everything works fine. It will eventually replace some older Buffalo NAS devices I have.

However, the Buffalo devices have the ability to be woken up when the network starts up. I am in the habit of shutting down my network each evening, and starting up again the following day. This is a simple process when the NAS devices wake up when the network comes up.

However, I don’t seem to be able to do this with the EX2 Ultra. Further to this, when I powered it up this morning it immediately went into a file check process. This concerns me, as it appears I need to perform an orderly shutdown on the device prior to shutting down the network.

So,

  1. Is there a way of getting the device to shutdown (or hibernate) with the network?
  2. What are the recommendations on powering down the device?

Thanks,
Lennie

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In order to shut down your unit, the Ethernet cable must be disconnected after the unit goes to sleep at the time of this post.

http://support.wdc.com/KnowledgeBase/answer.aspx?ID=13837