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- From: cording@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Dean Cording)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc
- Subject: Re: leaving it on?
- Date: 13 Nov 92 02:17:28 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
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- bs338@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael T. Biehl) writes:
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- >Is it best to leave your pc on all the time or just turn it on
- >when you need it then turn it off. Reason I ask is becouse I
- >heard that every time you turn your pc on and off you lose
- >a day of its life.
-
- The best option is to turn it on when you need it and turn it off
- when you think you won't need it for a while. That is, if you need
- it now for 5 minutes and possibly in an hour or so then leave it on,
- but if you won't need it until tommorrow then turn it off.
-
- At our site we have investigated this problem. We have about 100 machines
- over 18 months old - half of which have rarely been turned off in that time.
- Last summer the building staff insisted on turning off all machines over the
- weekend. Almost all of the monitors that had been left on continuously
- failed within a week with blown power supplies. The other monitors were
- unaffected. There did not appear to be any problem with the machines.
-
- Considering that the life of a machine is nearly 20 years turning the
- machine on and off every day will only reduce this to 10 years, if
- what you say holds, I don't think it will cause you any problems.
-
- Basically, you can leave a machine on continously or you can switch it
- on and off everyday, but doing both will cause problems.
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- Dean Cording
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