[Shotimes] OT - Computer- to turn off or not

[Paul L Fisher]

My monitor turns itself off after 3 hours of no activity, home and work. My
hard drives spin themselves down after 4 hours of no activity. The only
thing that is truly running on either machine is the power supply fan.

I still have my 11 year old 15" monitor "on" (see above) 24x7 and my old
Acer has had no failures.

Only problems I have at work are power supply fans getting noisy.

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From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of bjshov8@comcast.net
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:31 AM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: [Shotimes] OT - Computer- to turn off or not

This will be an eternal argument- do you turn it off or leave it running.  I
have been working with PC's about as long as anybody and have yet to see a
clear answer to this.  My procedure at home is to turn on my PC when I need
it, then leave it on until I'm certain that I'm through with it for the day,
then turn it off.  It's usually turned on for a couple of hours every day,
but only turned on once per day.  OTOH our computers at work run 24/7.  Some
years back I let my home computer run 24/7 also.

Here are some observations, certainly not scientific studies or conclusions
of any kind:
1)  My monitor left on 24/7 seemed to die an early death.
2)  Our computers running 24/7 seem to have more hard drive failures than my
home computer.  However my sampling at home is 1 out of 1 still running.
Our sampling at work is 3 out of 5 failed.
3)  Win98SE will work fine 24/7 but needs to be restarted every 3 or 4 days
or it will run out of resources.
 
> Who in their right mind shuts down a PC? I leave mine running 24x7 and
just
> let the daily (joke) security patch updates restart the PC for me.
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