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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I know about the on-off debate, too, though I've never seen enough hard data one way or the other. However, everyone's concern about wasting power is beginning to have an overriding voice in my head. Though my aging home PC takes 10 minutes to fully boot up (no lie),
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Good heavens? What hardware/OS? I may be able to make suggestions to tweak that.
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I'm leaving it on less and less when I leave it.
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I leave my PC on 24/7, and always have. I don't see ill effects. Various things happen on a scheduled basis overnight.
In terms of wear and tear on the components, "always on" is less stressful than on/off.
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Besides, in my office, no one logs-in to their PCs remotely (except the IT staff). I understand it's mostly for office-wide updates, but I fail to see why one night wouldn't be sufficient for duties like that.
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Having been an IT person that did that, it depends. My shop didn't have a policy one way or the other on on vs off, but I was just as happy to do remote logins during the day. Partly, it was because I normally did so to solve a user's problem, and that was simpler if they were there to talk to at the other end. And partly because I liked working regular hours, thank you. I've been known to SSH into a server at 2AM to do something that required the users to be off of it, but stuff like that is a rare exception.
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And besides, besides... are you ready for this?... if you turn off a PC in my office, the network magically turns it back on overnight! So, you could turn it off every night, and updates could be saved up for just one night, when the network switches the PCs on and loads everything. So, what're we leaving them on all night, every night for? I don't know!
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That's called "Wake on LAN", and is a BIOS Setting on modern devices.
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Dennis