Is It Bad To Let The Computer On 24/7 ?

[yosuke188]

I've heard that regular hard drives are not supposed to be run 24/7, so it might be a good idea to turn it off when not in use.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: savvy
I leave mine on 24/7.

Ditto

 

[firebyyrd]

Originally posted by: eplebnista

Originally posted by: savvy
I leave mine on 24/7.

Ditto

 

[networkman]

Most of the folks in the Distributed Computing forum, including myself, would tell you we leave the machines running 24/7 for the projects they're crunching.

 

[GrammatonJP]

Your hdd is probably not made for 24/7 unless its been rated for 100% cycle at 24/7

 

[thecnews]

Check out http://boggish.com/ if you need anymore help, check out their forum, they have a lot of good stuff

 

[easytimes]

All of my computers run 24/7, including the Mac Powerbook 17, which might be shut down twice as much as the 2 Win2k desktop 'puters. It does stay folded a lot, to preserve the display.

The Powerbook is the baby of the bunch at just under four years old. My Win2k computer was invoiced for shipment on 6/6/01, and my wife's computer invoice reads 10/10/98. Many upgrades and repair/replacements, but they still have the same motherboards and processors that were shipped on those dates. The hard drives are very different, but they were only changed in the past year. Hers has one more stick of RAM and an OS that are not the same as they were back then, but mine is still like it was, except for all the USB connectioned peripherals.

Booting is pretty tough on a computer, from everything I hear, so I do that only for health reasons... maybe twice a week, unless a storm shows up, and we get some doozie storms around here. UPS's on all desktops, by the way.