Poll: Do You Put Your Computer To Bed At Night?

[kami]

I shut my monitor off and that's it. I don't put my hard drives to sleep because I don't like the idea of them turning on and off so much.

 

[thomsbrain]

i turn it off when it's not busy. but it's usually busy ripping dvds (i know, i know "bad, mmkay?"), and it's only a lowly celery @952, so that can take a while in FairUse.

 

[Kadarin]

Mine's always on, and usually connected into some DC hub. However, I do turn the monitor off..

 

[brtspears2]

Eh, I like to keep my computer on.

 

[jaeger66]

I use suspend to RAM, which is the same as hibernate except the PC resumes in about 5 seconds(the data is written to RAM rather than disk). Basically I'm just waiting for the monitor to warm up so there's no reason at all to leave it on.

 

[Jumpem]

On 24/7, must be on AIM all the time.

 

[Amused]

Who uses a screen saver anymore? My screen turns off after 10 minutes.

So, my systems stay on 24/7, but my monitors turn themselves off.

 

[snow patrol]

I leave it on all the time, but have the monitor off when I'm not there.

I never use any of the hibernate options. My PC isn't a bear.

 

[Linflas]

The only reason I turn mine off is because they cause my computer room to get too hot if I leave them on 24x7. Seems to be a problem that became much worse when I moved to AMD.

 

[SaltBoy]

Okay, I guess this thread is for you folks...

 

[Paulson]

nope, all my servers stay up all night and day, so I can't put them to bed...

besides, why would I want to?

 

[Michael1897]

when at home i turn it off
when at school i leave it on and let it hibernate

 

[Derango]

Desktop off...laptop off, server on 24/7 (Except now...I'm waiting for a replacement motherboard to arrive)

 

[Dead3ye]

Hard disks and monitor go to bed, everything else stays up all night watching bad movies, including me.

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: Infos
My understanding of hibernation is it is using 5 watts per hour

This would be wrong. Hibernation saves all the info in main memory to a file on the disk, and then powers off. Then when you turn it back on again, it loads that file back into memory, and you're working right where you were when you turned it off. No power used at all. Sleep mode, however, keeps enough power flowing through it to refresh the memory.

 

[thawolfman]

Originally posted by: danii8
It stays on, but monitor off.

 

[CraigRT]

it's on 24/7 with the monitor off, and all drives with constant power.

 

[Infos]

Sure is lots of power being wasted in this thread...
According to the article in the link in the first post
".............. "hibernate" overnight. "Hibernate" powers down your monitor to about 5 watts of energy and your PC to 2.3 watts ? virtually the same as turning your PC off (your monitor uses zero watts when turned off; more on this below). Either way, you save as much as $90 a year in power costs compared to a PC left on with a 3D screen saver running."

Derango said a hibernated computer is burning no power. Anybody know the correct answer????
No guessing allowed.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Sluggo

Do You Put Your Computer To Bed At Night?

You bet, I even tuck it in and give it a little kiss on the moniter. My PC does like a night light though, and the Mac nightmares arent nearly as severe as they were a couple of months ago.

my night light is in the computer

 

[localfinesse]

My 3 computers have been on for 2 months strait

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Infos
Sure is lots of power being wasted in this thread...
According to the article in the link in the first post
".............. "hibernate" overnight. "Hibernate" powers down your monitor to about 5 watts of energy and your PC to 2.3 watts ? virtually the same as turning your PC off (your monitor uses zero watts when turned off; more on this below). Either way, you save as much as $90 a year in power costs compared to a PC left on with a 3D screen saver running."

Derango said a hibernated computer is burning no power. Anybody know the correct answer????
No guessing allowed.

Derango is incorrect. RAM requires power to hold data. Pull the power, and it clears itself.

A hibernating machine uses about 2.3 watts, the same as a machine turned off, but still plugged in. The 2.3 watts keeps the memory powered, and maintains network connectivity for features like "wake on LAN." Unplug a hibernating machine, and you'll lose you data and the machine will boot when you plug it back in.

My machine stays on because it's the file and print server for my home network. That, and I'm too damn impatient to wait for it to wake up. Only the monitor sleeps after 10 minutes.

My outdoor lighting (a well lit neighborhood is a safe neighborhood) uses many times more power than my computer staying on overnight.

Considering the fact that my monitor powers off, I'd say I'm wasting no more than $20-$30 a year (your monitor uses twice as much power or more than your idle PC).

 

[Sniper82]

When I'm up my PC is up when I'm asleep my PC sleeps(shut completely off).

 

[trmiv]

My two computers are right near my bed, and too loud for me to sleep with them on. So, I turn them off.