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From: dixon@pdn.paradyne.com (Tom Dixon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Leave the PC on vs. Power it off daily?
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Date: 17 Sep 90 20:58:45 GMT
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With todays pc hardware, exactly how dangerous is each power cycle?  
If you power your office unit off every night, are you in for early 
hardware failures?  Or is this all propaganda spread by electric power 
companies?

I propose this assuming an ibm pc clone, with hard drive, utilized five
days a week.  Currently, some people around our plant are recommending
that we shut all the equipment off to save on the power bill, and I'm
afraid that this is not the best idea.

I seem to remember that a few years ago, the recommendation was that if 
a pc was going to be on five days a week, you were wise to leave it on 
all of the time.  The power used was insignificant next to repair costs 
from drive failures and hardware problems related to frequent power 
cycling.  The act of powering up in those units was apparently very
hard on the hardware.

But today we have newer (and better?) units.  So with current 
technology, what's the story?


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Thomas M. Dixon Jr.				dixon@pdn.paradyne.com
Software Engineer				uunet!pdn!dixon
AT&T Paradyne, Largo, Fl