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Good/Bad to shutdown your computer at night?

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Old 07-14-2008   #1 (permalink)
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Good/Bad to shutdown your computer at night?

Before I go to bed every night I shutdown my pc. Is it bad to leave it running?

If you dont know what I mean post here, but if you get the general Idea answer the poll please, and maybe give a specific reason or something.
Old 07-14-2008   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Good/Bad to shutdown your computer at night?

doesnt really matter.
The spinning down/up of the disk does wear it out, but considering it can do that hundred thousand times (approx) in the systems lifetime it doesnt really matter.
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Re: Good/Bad to shutdown your computer at night?

I've heard numerous opinions on this. Some believe that it's worse to shut it off, because the initial spike of electricity to power up the system is harder on it than leaving it on. Then others say leaving it on causes unneccesary wear and tear, especially on your fans and psu. So who knows.
Old 07-14-2008   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Good/Bad to shutdown your computer at night?

Hi Adeang,

It doesn't really matter. I would say use what fits your needs best. Sleep, hibernate, hybrid, or shutdown. Sleep will have your computer up and running faster when you need to get on and off of it often.

Hope this helps,
Shawn
Old 07-14-2008   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Good/Bad to shutdown your computer at night?

If you want a lower electric bill then shut it down. I don't think Google shuts down their servers every night? Our servers at work run 24/7 365. They are never shutdown unless the power is out for a long period of time. They get restarted a couple of times a year when certain updates are applied though.

As far as my computers at home I leave them on 24/7 to run various tasks late at night (automatic backups, defrag, virus scans, software updates...etc.). Since I live in the Midwestern US, I do shut everything down when severe weather is in the neighborhood. We have some pretty nasty storms from time to time.
Old 07-14-2008   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Good/Bad to shutdown your computer at night?

yeah I live in Oklahoma and whether is bad here a ton, and you never know what is going on so thats why I always shut mine down. THanks, but its good to know that I can leave it on if I want.
Old 07-15-2008   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Good/Bad to shutdown your computer at night?

I leave mine running 24/7 since I've generally got torrents going 24/7. I do turn my monitor off when I go to sleep though. I believe in compromising
Old 07-15-2008   #8 (permalink)
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My machine will hybrid sleep if nothing is going on - but every hour it wakes up and sends a report to DShield for all the botnet IPs that try to hack my router....
Old 07-15-2008   #9 (permalink)
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Re: Good/Bad to shutdown your computer at night?

I generally leave Prometheus on overnight, to perform such tasks as defragging, updating the index, etc. But most often I have a download also going that throttles to full speed when the computer is idle.

I restart even couple of days to install updates (if any)
Old 07-15-2008   #10 (permalink)
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Re: Good/Bad to shutdown your computer at night?

I shut mine down for 10 days in February while I was on vacation, other than that the only time it reboots is when it takes an update that requires it

TBH I know I should start shutting it down, my monthly electric bill is now around £100 ($200) and rising with every month that passes, I'm sure a fair amount of that is my computers, but I'm just too lazy to shut them down and start them up every morning.
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