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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: TURN COMPUTER OFF OR LEAVE ON?
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Date: 13 Jun 91 17:47:13 GMT
References: <1991Jun12.034754.12713@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun3.194555.3525@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> <1991Jun6.204719.10657@eng.umd.edu> <1991Jun7.154552.14096@infonode.ingr.com>,<1991Jun8.081224.19511@nntp.hut.fi>
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From article <1991Jun12.034754.12713@news.iastate.edu>, by taak9@isuvax.iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon):
> In article <1991Jun8.081224.19511@nntp.hut.fi>, mstr@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Strand) writes:
>>In article <1991Jun7.154552.14096@infonode.ingr.com> hychejw@infonode.ingr.com (Jeff W. Hyche) writes:
>>>     Leaving the computer on will not harm it.  In fact it is better
>>>for it in the long run.  Turning it off and own will speed up thermal
>>>wear on the system and cause falure to componets due to heat.
>>
>>It is not that simple. The harddrive will not last long, if you run
>>it all the time.

Excuse me, but even the cheapest hard drives have a 40,000 hour MTBF
now. That means that basically you can run it 24 hours a day for four
years without any problem. Also, the stress of startup is very
strenuous for a hard drive. Too many on-off cycles can render it
incapable of starting up, especially for brands prone to sticktion,
such as SeaCrate.

>   My feeling is that there are lots of things that can happen when
> you're away, and you're equipment is on.

True... whenever I'm going away I turn my equipment off. Whenever there's
a lightning storm in the area I turn the equipment off. No big deal.
Otherwise, I just turn off the monitor. I'm paranoid about that cheap
Seacrate hard drive of mine, the last one fried at startup, so I want to
shut it down as few times as possible.

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Eric Lee Green   (318) 984-1820  P.O. Box 92191  Lafayette, LA 70509
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