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Article #20162Re: Leaving the computer on all the time -> Good or Bad?
From: kraai4712
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:41
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:41
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In article <1iv477INNf70@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry) writes: > > > > 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. From 2nd Ed. _Upgrading_and_Repairing_PCs_ (heavily paraphrased) Issues: hard drive temperature (change in physical disk size due to variations in temperature) energy conservation 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. Author's conclusion: Leave your computer on through the week, and turn it off over the weekends. --jim
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!iscsvax.uni.edu!kraai4712 From: kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc 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 Lines: 29