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- From: slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!constant.demon.co.uk!slangley
- Subject: WHEN TO TURN OFF MY MACHINE?
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- References: <1992Jul26.214249.24227@athena.mit.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:20:43 +0000
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- In article <1992Jul26.214249.24227@athena.mit.edu> dmatic@athena.mit.edu writes:
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- >I've been wondering for a long time when is a good idea to
- >turn off my machine, and when should I leave it on. For example,
- >if I know I won't be using it for a week, I usually turn it off,
- >but if I use it every day, I leave it on all the time. What is
- >better for the hard disks? What is the minimum idle time for a
- >hard disk to be worth turning it off? I have a 386-40, with 2
- >SCSI disks (200 and 600 MBytes), running UNIX SVR4, X11R5, etc.
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- I have a 486 running SVR4 and I leave my machine on all the time. I cannot
- help feeling that I shall want a new machine before the drives wear out.
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- Leaving the machine on all the time gives you the opportunity to do expensive
- tasks overnight or to collect/send mail and news. This can be quite handy.
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