The hard drive comes in a solid packaging with the necessary cables and power supply. Commissioning is very easy because of the pre-formatted hard disk must be plugged only. From the NAS system will detect any problems, here it can serve as backup system. Before using this service only takes place nor the formatting with "ext4", then can be secured. The first backup drive brings good 1 Tebibyte in around 6 hours to sufficiently quietly active hard drive. Despite the administrative burden and at times simultaneous use of the NAS system is a transfer rate of more than 50 MiB / s. :-)
Switching off the hard disk after the backup is more difficult. The disk as a backup should not always run with, but only if it is backed up. Turning off fails the lack of on / off switch, a useful and inexpensive component. In addition, one should withhold a frequent continuous operation in view of the temperature development. :-(
Long-term experience missing logically at such an early point in time, there already would take a few months.