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- From: t9114145@phillip.edu.au
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: WHEN TO TURN OFF MY MACHINE?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.120303.12543@phillip.edu.au>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:03:02 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.214249.24227@athena.mit.edu> <712290043snx@constant.demon.co.uk>
- Organization: RMIT (Bundoora Campus)
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- In article <712290043snx@constant.demon.co.uk>, slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley) writes:
- >
- > In article <1992Jul26.214249.24227@athena.mit.edu> dmatic@athena.mit.edu writes:
- >>
- >>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.
- >>
- > 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.
- >
- > 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.
-
- Except that the fan is way too noisy for me to sleep through it. Is there
- any *safe* way to cut the noise? Do the thermostatic silencers cut the
- noise while keeping everything as cool as it should be?
- I have never liked the idea of trusting a multi-K$ machine to a
- third-party gadget.
-
- Will turning the machine on and off morning and night harm the machine
- at all? (i.e. wear out the HD motor faster?)
-
- >
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- > Simon Langley email: slangley@constant.demon.co.uk
- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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- Adam Eberbach Computer Science student, RMIT. t9114145@phillip.edu.au
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