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Guy Barwood <barwoodg@ocean.com.au> wrote:


>Con's
>1.	I'm sure that most HDD's spin all the time (except laptop ones for
>power saving), now keeping them powered up will wear the motor quicker.
>Mean time between failures are normall quoted in number of hours, so
>this may reduced the effective life of your drives.

Power saving features in are standard in most modern systems so you
can set the HDD to power down automatically.

>2.	CPU fans and Power supply fans have limited lifes.  If one fails
>while you are asleep,  either your computer could fry, die, or even
>burn!

True, but its unlikely that the damage would be that drastic.  The
heat sink does most of the work anyway.

>3.	The cost of the electricity.

Pretty negligable.  A current monitor can be set to turn itself onto
standby which uses almost no power, and the rest of the system should
use less than 50W (I would guess anyway) probably much less with the
HDD powered down.

>4.	You will need to clean (blow out) the insides of your PC more
>regularily to get rid of the extra dust intoduced by the power supply's
>fan. (Called preventative maintainance)

Always a good habit anyway.

>
>PS Personally I'd keep the PC on all the time if their was no difference
>in my power bill, which would  probably be equal to a 100w globe on
>average (bit of a guess).

around my guess.  I'm fairly sure it would be much less than this
though.


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