[gui-talk] leaving computer turned on

[Doug Lee]

I personally believe it saves on hard drive wear and tear to leave a
computer on all the time, because startup and spin-down is harder on a
drive than the constant whirring of just being active.  As Flash
drives become popular as main storage, this of course won't matter.
Electronics do prefer constancy in temperature though, so even though
the effect of this nowadays is probably negligible, I think leaving a
machine on may be easier on the electronics as well.  The only thing
that doesn't like being left on all the time, in my opinion, is the
fan - case fan, power supply fan, CPU fan, whatever.  Fans are
probably better at handling that now then years ago too though.

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 09:44:02PM -0700, Humberto wrote:
Hello folks,

To all the geeks out there who really know the ins and outs of the PC,
is it OK if I leave my PC turned on all day and night? Will my
computer suffer or wear out by leaving it on all day? Will it get
slow? I read on my city's networking web site that if I leave my
computer on all the time, I would avoid startup and bootloading errors
when shutting off and turning on. Is this true?
thoughts welcome everyone.

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