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<blockquote data-quote="Werewolf" data-source="post: 1867216" data-attributes="member: 239"><p>Leave on equals more heat and dust sucked into the computer.</p><p>If connected to the internet increases the liklihood of your PC being highjacked</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>That said: Turn it off.</p><p></p><p>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......</p><p></p><p>Turn it off.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Werewolf, post: 1867216, member: 239"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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