>On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 06:20:01PM -0500, Tanner, Robby wrote:
> > Leaving the PC on, particulaly with today's advanced power management
> > features, lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO).
In my experience, as a person who likes to power things down at night
(except for one firewall/DNS machine), office equipment goes obsolete long
before it breaks down (data based on four PCs, 1 Mac, 1 NeXT, misc
printers/fax/modems, etc.). The only things that have broken down on me in
14 years are my blasted Seagate Archive Python DAT tape drive (it was
almost an annual tradition before someone told me to use tapes no larger
than 90m) and a 1989 Seagate disk drive (which failed right after I bought
it --- its replacement, however, is still spinning today). Everything else
still works great, until I try to upgrade something and all hell breaks loose.
I'm not talking about notebook systems which have been absolutely awful for
me (an old Dell and a more recent Toshiba OEM), presumably suffering
severely from vibrating car trunks and overhead compartments in planes.
I think turning off disk drives is worth it during periods of disuse (think
about the bearings and all those revolutions per second --- also, I can
sometimes *hear* disk vibration, which is not a good sign). I don't worry
about solid state chips or wave-soldered circuit boards. I've never seen a
cold solder joint on a modern PC board. I turn off my monitor because I
don't want every nudge of the mouse to turn it back on. In areas subject
to lightening storms or shaky power, unplugging the power strips during a
trip seems like a good idea.
Julius
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