Re: What is best for your PC? Off, On, Hibernate?
- From: Nostromo <nostromo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 18:33:42 +1100
Thus spake Spalls Hurgenson <yoinks@xxxxxxxxx>, Sun, 20 Nov 2005 03:34:05
GMT, Anno Domini:
>Personally, I turn off the computers more to save electricity than out
>of any worry about long-term damage caused by nightly power-cycles.
>I've had computers last ten years that were power-cycled nightly, and
>other PCs that lasted as long even though they were running all the
>time. The rules-of-thumbs regarding power-cycling are really for older
>(and more expensive) technology. Electronics nowadays are robust
>enough that you'll likely toss out the computer for being obsolete
>long before you worry about the damage caused by keeping it on/off.
Robust enough, but it still shortens their lifespan. Check out server stats
& just how much their mean lifetimes are shortened by temperature
fluctuations in the environment - now multiply that by 100 for a cold
cpu/mobo to operating temps which will show you that switching a PC off & on
constantly is by far the most lifespan reducing thing you can do to it, all
anecdotal 'evidence' aside. I've been in the industry my whole career (well
over 20 yrs), but what do I know...:-/
>The one thing I do recommend you do is -if you don't expect to be
>using them- you turn off the CRT monitor and the laser printer. Those
>are power hogs.
Fair enough, but even most of those should have power saving features these
days.
>(As an aside, even when we turn off our computers, they usually aren't
>really "off"; they're just using less electricity. Modern ATX
>motherboards stay in a low-power mode (so things like "wake on LAN"
>work), CRT monitors keep their tubes warm so it doesn't take a minute
>to get image, and wall-wars (step down converters) pull in electricity
>whether or not the devices they are connected to actually need it.)
Electricity expenditure is probably the only half-decent excuse, the rest
are bunk. PCs have the safest power supply of any home appliance you are
ever likely to have (in fact, guess what apps start fires most often?
fridges, believe it or not). Modern PCs, even whilst running in full-on
slurp mode with P2P still use a fraction of the power, so long as the
CRT/LCD is off, the apps are minimized (no video card work) & the hard drive
activity is as minimal as it can get. I mean, who TF turns their PCs off
these days? People who like to update their AV, OS & other apps _while_ they
are trying to do things first thing when they fire it up lol? Amateurs -
pfft! >;-p (it's really all just superstition & false rationale - try to get
your PC to do as much as it can *without* you pushing monkey keys & then
you'll see it come into its own :)
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