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

[Adam Parrott]

FWIW, a majority of the computers in our house are on 24/7 and we haven't
had any problems because of it.  The primary gateway computer (running the
IPcop firewall under Linux) is an old Packard Bell desktop with a P90 and
original 512MB hard drive.  It was our first PC back in '94 and it's still
going strong.  The rest of the computers - my dad's mega home machine, my
own Gateway system, and usually my mom's office PC - are on 24/7.

The only hard drives that we've had to replace due to failure was a 1GB
Maxtor drive we had in the ol' P-Bell around '98 (before it was the gateway
for the house).  All of the rest of the hard drive replacements have been
due to lack of space or upgrades in technology, not failure.

As for OS', the 9x series just plain sucks in my book.  Thank goodness we
Microshaft users finally have something nice 'n stable like XP.  9x crashes
all the time and my brother constantly has problems out of it, which is why
we're upgrading the other two house machines to XP very soon.  For those
who doubt XP's stabillity, check out this pic:

http://hosting.superhighoutput.com/axianator/images/desktop_35days640.jpg

The longest I've been able to run XP since installing it on my machine last
August is about 36 days.  I could go longer but Avast (antivirus) likes to
update every other day and I can only go so long without rebooting.  If it
wasn't for the updates, the machine would probably never need rebooting.  I
/never/ could have pulled that off under 98.

Bottom line is that we leave most of our machines on 24/7 (hard drives
included) and have experienced zero problems because of it.

Adam


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Fleshman Insurance" <insman1@charter.net>
To: "'Paul L Fisher'" <sho@paul-fisher.com>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:48 PM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] OT - Computer- to turn off or not


<<In the
4 years of running 130 Dell Optiplex's, I have 2 hard drive failure, 1
monitor.>>

These were Acers.  The Dells I have are flawless and nary a failure among
them.  I am leery of running anything 24/7 unless it has the Dell nameplate
on it for that reason.  Only time one of the Dells has quit was when I did
something stupid...like downloading a virus <ahem, who me?> :).


Ron
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