7 tricks that cut my Synology NAS’s power bill in half

I didn’t pay much attention to power consumption when I first set up my Synology NAS at home. I was more excited by the possibilities the NAS enabled in my workflow and personal life with file management and photo backups. But over time, as I started considering power backup solutions for my unit, I realized how much of an impact the NAS has been causing on my power bill. While the NAS itself isn’t rated to eat up a lot of electricity, I could still use some frugality to make it much more efficient — and even cut my NAS power bill almost in half. These are the changes I made to my setup to hit that goal.