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- From: hymowitz@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (Hymie!)
- Subject: Re: leaving it on?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.145141.14955@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Organization: Creative Sensualities dept, Jacquie's House of Underwear
- References: <1dnctgINNepb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <cording.721621048@sorokin>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 14:51:41 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- and lo, there was much rejoicing among the people, as
- cording@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Dean Cording) writes:
- >bs338@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael T. Biehl) writes:
- >
- >
- >>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.
-
- don't necessarily take this advice as gospel.
-
- i have a seagate (?) hard drive, and i (and other people who mentioned
- this the last time this question came up) have to leave the thing on all
- the time. if i turn it off, it takes a lot of fiddling with the wires
- to get it to turn back on. in fact, i'll be on vacation for a week, and
- the thing will be on the whole time.
-
- i live in fear of a power outage. :)
-
- --hymie
- hymowitz@cs.jhu.edu hymie@jhuvms.bitnet
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