A DAC is essentially an external logical disk. Before you power it off, you need to make sure all filesystems have been unmounted properly to avoid data corruption. The easiest way to do this is to first power off the Decoder or Concentrator connected to it. After this is cmoplete, it is safe to power off the DAC.
It is worth pointing out that to shut down the Concentrator or Decoder you have to manually halt the NetWitness services first, otherwise they won't shut down cleanly. On Centos based systems monit stop nwdecoder or monit stop nwconcentrator should work. After that you can just shutdown -h
Does anyone know why all appliances don't shutdown cleanly if you just shutdown from the Unix prompt? They seem to get stuck if you don't stop the NW services first.