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- Subject: Re: Leaving the computer on all the time -> Good or Bad?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.164110.9805@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:41:10 -0600
- References: <1iv477INNf70@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <1iv477INNf70@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry) writes:
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- >
- >
- > Is leaving my 80286 on all the time good or bad for my computer?
- > I turn it on and off at least 10 or so times a day.
- > Is it better to just leave it on all the time?
- > It 's about 70-75 in my house so I'm not sure about overheating
- > Also,what kind of power does it draw?
- > I have the board and a floppy hooked up now as well as a monitor.
- > Hard drive soon.
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- From 2nd Ed. _Upgrading_and_Repairing_PCs_ (heavily paraphrased)
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- Issues:
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- hard drive temperature (change in physical disk size due to variations in
- temperature)
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- energy conservation
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- Trade off: While it's best to let your hard drive run at the same temperature
- (to maintain highest degree of data-integrity), we shouldn't run the computers
- all the time as they use electricity.
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- Author's conclusion: Leave your computer on through the week, and turn it off
- over the weekends.
-
- --jim
-