Poll: How many hours per day (avg) is your computer at home on?

[TheOmegaCode]

All the time. I restart every few days, but I never shut it down...

 

[brtspears2]

Since I dont pay for power, all day for me

If i turn it off, the hippies win.

 

[joemamma]

about 6....on weekends i just leave it on

 

[tallest1]

4 days uptime and counting. Panaflos 0wn my system, so noise isn't an issue

 

[ElFenix]

you don't have 48 hours/day listed.

 

[Thegonagle]

23.98.

 

[neovan]

24 hours most of the time...its only down when I'm upgrading a component.

Must run SETI for the TeAm!!!

Come on guys...join up! Show your support for the TeAm!!!

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: neovan
24 hours most of the time...its only down when I'm upgrading a component.

Must run SETI for the TeAm!!!

Come on guys...join up! Show your support for the TeAm!!!

We have a winner!

 

[mithrandir2001]

Originally posted by: p0ntif

Originally posted by: mithrandir2001
When you start paying your own electrical bill, you might not want to keep all your machines running 24/7.

I pay my own electric bill, but still keep all my computers on 24/7 . . . would it really make a difference?
I didn;t know people still turned their computers off. weird.

Well, think about it: even if your PC was totally idle and you turned off all your other peripherals (monitor, printers, modems, speakers, scanners, etc.) it's still going to draw about 100 watts. And if you don't turn off your peripherals and/or you don't have all the power saving features set to max, you might be drawing 200-300 watts even when you aren't using your PC. In my area, a killowatt-hour costs about 13 cents. So an appliance drawing 100 watts of power will use a penny of electricity every 46 minutes. Sounds insignificant - and it really is - but what if you have 3-4 PCs running all the time? It does add up and it seems senseless just to spend the money for idling.

Of course, many people run their PCs 24/7 for the novelty effect. Makes it seem like their machines are in a mission-critical production environment. Geeky stuff. I mean, how many people REALLY need a couple of servers running 24/7 in their house if they don't have their own business?

 

[LordMaul]

All the time.

Well, 4 of them are, the other...4 are off quite often.

 

[Danman]

All of the damn time. Sometimes I don't even set foot out of my house.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Linux box - webserver - Router - firewall - IRC box - 24/7
Main Win2k box - ftp server - in use a lot - 24/7
Second win2x box - Less than 2 hours per day (unless Im doing a Lan, or a family member or friend is on it)
Third win2x box - Less than 2 hours per day (unless Im doing a Lan, or a family member or friend is on it)

 

[MC]

The last time i shut it down was when i brought it to a LAN Party. Before that was when i bought it to _another_ LAN.

 

[Lucky]

4 boxes running 24.7
One mac running when needed

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: MingChia
The last time i shut it down was when i brought it to a LAN Party. Before that was when i bought it to _another_ LAN.

So either you:

1. didn't turn it on at the LAN party
2. you didn't take it with you afterwards
3. you took such long extension leads with you so you could take it home afterwards without turning it off
4. last LAN party was at your place, and you just returned from another LAN party
5. you lied to us!

Which is it gonna be?

 

[FoBoT]

computers should not have on/off switches

 

[Kadarin]

24/7 logged into a Direct Connect hub as pr0n server. Also use it for personal pic hosting and ftp.

 

[Amused]

24/7 here With the monitor set to sleep after 10 minutes.

Reasons:

1. My main box is the print and file server for my wireless network.

2. Leaving it on 24/7 and good cooling is what I attribute to never having had a HDD failure (even with IBM 60 and 75 GXPs). You can't tell me that spinning up and down HDDs plus the thermal changes aren't going to damage HDDs over time.

3. Leaving my box on 24/7 costs me about $5-10 extra a month in electricity. The benefits above, and of being able to jump on the computer without having to wait for it to boot is worth that to me.

 

[eakers]

i only turn mine off if i hear there will be thunderstorms.

 

[eakers]

oh and i keep it running because i hate waiting for it to boot up.


*coughplusitmakesmefeelgoodwhenihaveicqmessageswaitingfrompeoplecough*

 

[cliftonite]

24/7

 

[nagger]

My comp isn't on 24/7 since I share the Kb/Mouse/Monitor with my parent's PC and when my father want's to work on his PC I have to shutdown mine.

 

[yakko]

About 24.

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: nagger
My comp isn't on 24/7 since I share the Kb/Mouse/Monitor with my parent's PC and when my father want's to work on his PC I have to shutdown mine.

KB and Mouse are dirt cheap. You can get a nice mouse and cheap keyboard for about $25. Look on Hot Deals and you can find a nice monitor for around $100. Might be worth it...

 

[Spamela]

24/7 for home & work.