Eh? He can reboot it as often as he likes and still not turn it off.
I leave mine on all the time unless it's critical power pricing in peak hours.
PC (personal computer not political correctness HAHAHAHA) question
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Eh? He can reboot it as often as he likes and still not turn it off.
I leave mine on all the time unless it's critical power pricing in peak hours.
Leave on equals more heat and dust sucked into the computer.
If connected to the internet increases the liklihood of your PC being highjacked
Some have mentioned that leaving the PC on decreases HDD life. 10 years ago that was true - though just barely. Modern HDD use air or magnetic bearings which means essentially no wear. In addition the head that reads the disk floats above the disk while it is turning and never touches the disk while it is turning (very, very bad if it does). The only time the head will touch the disk is when you turn it off. The arm will swing to the parked position and gently lower the head to the disk. If you turn off the PC for a long time (used to be 3 or more months) then there is a liklihood of suffering what is called stiction (silly name) which means that head sticks for a moment to the disk even after it starts turning - bad.
That said: Turn it off.
HDD's are dirt cheap these days and cost way less than a CPU. CPU's will deteriorate in 2 to 3 years if there's lots of dust in the air (this is Oklahoma - dust storms when it rains for Kriste's sake here) and it gets in the cooling fins, on the fan blades etc and you never open the case to clean it out due to all that crud decreasing the ability of the CPU to run cool. In the summer every little bit of extra heat decreases the comort of your home, uses less electric, reduces intrusion liklihood and depending on your unit may reduce ambient noise. So......
Turn it off.
If connected to the internet increases the liklihood of your PC being highjacked
Some have mentioned that leaving the PC on decreases HDD life. 10 years ago that was true - though just barely. Modern HDD use air or magnetic bearings which means essentially no wear. In addition the head that reads the disk floats above the disk while it is turning and never touches the disk while it is turning (very, very bad if it does). The only time the head will touch the disk is when you turn it off. The arm will swing to the parked position and gently lower the head to the disk. If you turn off the PC for a long time (used to be 3 or more months) then there is a liklihood of suffering what is called stiction (silly name) which means that head sticks for a moment to the disk even after it starts turning - bad.
That said: Turn it off.
HDD's are dirt cheap these days and cost way less than a CPU. CPU's will deteriorate in 2 to 3 years if there's lots of dust in the air (this is Oklahoma - dust storms when it rains for Kriste's sake here) and it gets in the cooling fins, on the fan blades etc and you never open the case to clean it out due to all that crud decreasing the ability of the CPU to run cool. In the summer every little bit of extra heat decreases the comort of your home, uses less electric, reduces intrusion liklihood and depending on your unit may reduce ambient noise. So......
Turn it off.
I'm the first person to preach about the benefits of leaving your machine on all the time, and in this heat, lately I've been turning mine off.
so the power up and down adds more wear and electricity typically. The only piece to remotely worry about really is the hard drive - they get pretty warm - the heating and cooling will cause premature and excessive wear on the drive and can can as a result cause it to fail or cause SMART errors. The fans and power supply I wouldn't worry about. But if your PC is getting warm enough to generate enough heat that shutting it down causes temperature to drop either you have one hell of a system or bigger issues. I have a laser printer, 2 laptops on 24/7, 2 LCDs and more in one room and it doesn't effect the temp at all. now given I don't have a multimedia or gaming powerhouse I have quite a bit of equipment in a smaller area.
It doesn't make a difference to your computer. Save on the heat and power if you don't mind waiting for it to boot.
My work PC stays running 24x7x365 and hasn't fallen down yet.
Same. Saying the contrary is just winder haters.
System Up Time: 81 Days, 23 Hours, 37 Minutes, 23 Seconds
And that was because of building maintenance.
microsoft windows more like micro$oft windoze amirite
e: this was supposed to be all caps but we have some kind of wordfilter magic that hates comedy
That means you're missing some critical patches.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-jul
If you have perfect power that will never go down or surge and you have a completely clean stable environment, then on all the time is better. I agree with real world environments turning off anytime you will be away from it for more than a few hours.
