Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!chaos!morgan From: morgan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dylan Kaufman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Computer on 24hrs.day? (yes or no) Message-ID: Date: 29 Mar 90 04:31:02 GMT References: <28294@ubvax.UB.Com> Sender: @chaos.cs.brandeis.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Brandeis University Computer Science Dept Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: gregk@ubvax.UB.Com's message of 29 Mar 90 02:59:32 GMT In article <28294@ubvax.UB.Com> gregk@ubvax.UB.Com (Greg Kendall) writes: MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu (Mark Solsman) writes: >Should I leave my computer on 24hrs/day, or should I turn it on/off each day? > >The system is a Gateway 2000 386 tower. > > >thanks for all help! >Mark Solsman MHS108 @ PSUVM.BITNET > MHS108 @ PSUVM.PSU.EDU > I've heard a lot of claims about how it's "harder" on the PC to power up than to leave it on. I have yet to hear of any real data on failure rates. I also suggest that, if it can't take being turned on and off, it's such a poor design that it probably doesn't matter which you do. My undertanding is that it is indeed harder on the system to have the shock of being turned on than to be left on, but that the difference is only significant if you turn your computer on several times a day (like more than 10 or so). It is not that a computer can't take being turned on and off, it is merely that anything electronic takes a certain amount of wear and tear damage from being subjected to the flow of electricity where there had recently been none. Obviously there are electronic devices which get turned on and off constantly, and yet they last for ages. -- -<>Dylan<>- morgan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu