Computer On or Off at night?


  

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  1. 1. Computer On or Off at night?

    • Turn off when unused
      66
    • Leave it on.
      138


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woah big output!

the slowness is just a result of small memory leaks and performance degradation evident in nearly all programs out there. I usually log out and in once and a while on my machine to keep things fresh and clear up some additional resources that may not have been released yet.

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I leave mine on whenever I can because I run my webserver from it. I also tend to be downloading things overnight a lot.

If I wasn't running a webserver or anything, I probably wouldn't leave it on. It is a proven fact that leaving electrical components on for extended periods of time causes slow-but-sure damage to the circuitry.

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Computer is on most all the time... Let's say one or two reboot per week.. I leave it in peace one night in the week...

At night running Seti... and dl stuff...

I've got good fans... that helps ! :)

Windows XP Pro Corp build 2600

Intel Celeron Tualatin Core 13? 256KB L2 1200Mhz@1488MHz

(Vcore:1.475V to 1.6V FSB: 12 x 124MHz)

Asustek TUSL2 - C Intel 815EP Chipset socket 370

512 MB sdRAM @ PC133

Pioneer DVD-rom 10x

Yamaha Cdr CD-rw 16x/10x/40x SCSi

SCSI PCI Buslogic Flashpoint Controller

IBM 7200rpm ATA 100 60 Go

Maxtor 7200rpm ATA 100 30 Go

ATI RAGE 128 TV Out 32 Mo

Guillemot Fortissimo Optical Out

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Microsoft Optical Intellimouse Explorer

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Originally posted by bartheq

I can't sleep when it's not running cause it's too quiet:D :D :D :D

My situation exactly!

And to the people talking about system degradation, for me, i upgrade so often, that it's not an issue. Plus, I have 386s I've left on for quite a majority of the day that *still* work fine (well, relatively :D )

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24/7/365..unles of required reboots for virus updates and such or if somthing like office refuses to play nice with the other appz no matter how much I restart. besides I fall asleep to winamp eveynight, so if i dind't have it on I'd never get any sleep.:s

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From personal experience the only time I have ever had hardware problems has been when rebooting or when powering on, both at home and at work. I work for IBM Global Services Australia maintaining VMS/UNIX and NT systems. My favourite is our VMS system which recently reached 972days uptime before a power hit took out the site and a disk controller card on this server....sigh :-( ...I was so hoping for 1000days...ah the stability of VMS. A good think XP comes from it.

I'm a firm believer in leaving them on...they use bugger all power anyway, certainly makes no difference to my power bill.

Anyway that's my two cents.

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All my systems run 24/7. My daily used system runs my wintv card at night (I fall asleep watching tv). My server is running bpftp, apache, and idling in irc. The others are either in standby mode or doing some scans on the network (normally virus scans and backups)

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depends,...if i'm defraging, or downloading a big demo(i'm on a dialup) or doing anything else which takes alot of time..i leave it on at night.

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Mine's on 24/7

Originally posted by iconman

How can it corrupt your HD?

When your computer on and off the HD pinhead needed to be parked... through this repeditive action that it degrade the life time of the HD much higher rate than leaving it on... also, you don't want to set your power consumption to turn off your HD... many hard drives get ruined this way...

Originally posted by gchivers

From personal experience the only time I have ever had hardware problems has been when rebooting or when powering on, both at home and at work. I work for IBM Global Services Australia maintaining VMS/UNIX and NT systems. My favourite is our VMS system which recently reached 972days uptime before a power hit took out the site and a disk controller card on this server....sigh :-( ...I was so hoping for 1000days...ah the stability of VMS. A good think XP comes from it.

I'm a firm believer in leaving them on...they use bugger all power anyway, certainly makes no difference to my power bill.

Anyway that's my two cents.

Hehehe... I love VAX/VMS shell... Very easy to play with... know what I mean? :) kekeke

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I leave my on 24/7. Except when I leave town for many many days.

I happen to have a IBM HDD, it's the 60GB one. :/ it's actually doing quite well for me. Haven't die yet ;)

Right now, one thing that really ****es me off is sometimes you HAVE to reboot. Take for example, I should've restarted many hours ago, after I installed new drivers for my soundcard. But I still haven't... heh :p

I wish somehow we can restart "part" of the vital system, maybe store all the data on people with enough RAM of write into HDD. :/ just a thought.

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Originally posted by Krome

When your computer on and off the HD pinhead needed to be parked... through this repeditive action that it degrade the life time of the HD much higher rate than leaving it on... also, you don't want to set your power consumption to turn off your HD... many hard drives get ruined this way...

Ehhh.. I don't pretend to know otherwise, but are you sure this is an issue with modern drives? I'm just thinking if this were something that people should really think about that it would be a lot more documented, I've never heard anything about HD parking degrading the life of a drive.

By the way, I'm not saying you're wrong, just saying my opinion.

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Yer off at night, I hate that little noises it makes, that you can hear it making at night, so out and off damn computer I say

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Originally posted by Silvorgold

lol, in other threads whenever he posts, they say "why should we believe u since your names liar2?" lol

yeah, if you don't wanna believe me, then don't. it's up to you. i do tend to get that a lot. :p

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