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Computer On/OFF -Reply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Waters)
Mon Jun 15 09:11:38 1998
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:08:32 -0400
From: Jeffrey Waters <Jeffrey.Waters@rich.frb.org>
To: NewsReply@biogate.com, kevin@portal.ca
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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This is really a tough question as it depends upon your environment.
There is no doubt that the biggest strain you will put on your CPU is the
initial power up this is both electrical and mechanical, now the electrical is
somewhat controlled by the power supply, but even that is not the best in
the world and you are still placing your power supply in harms way. This
is also a very personal topic as it is subject to everyone bias, and we will
all bring our dirty laundry to the table. With all that said, if you have a very
good UPS that provides you with great filtering, so you don't have to
worry about power swings, storms etc...., then your best bet is by far to
leave the equipment on, use a screen blank, or screen hibernation to
save your screen and enjoy. Older disk hibernation is not nearly as good
as today's is as in just the last 6-10 months they have started to use slow
spin up by using a regulated voltage to give your drive a little push to get it
going, then when it has gotten to about 1/4 speed the ckt will gradually
open up and do a full spin, thus the 1 to 2 second drive spin up time now
over the half second few years ago. They have been working on the for
the last 12-18 months or so, but like I said it really just started to stabilize
with in the last 10 month or so.
Now all that is just for your hardware, if you are running anything other
than Linux or NetWare, come up with some sort of system refresh
schedule as the typical M$ software will not take prolonged running with
out cleaning its self up, great at grabbing resources but not so great at
letting them go. Win 95/98 is by far much worse at this than NT is but NT
still has its problems as well.
>>> Michael GoodSon <NewsReply@biogate.com> 06/12/98 05:56pm >>>
Dear Friends
Which is better :
1) ALways turn on your computer ( though you're not using it all the time )
2) Turn on all time w/ suspends when not used
3) ON-FF
which is better ? My country got crisis, i don't think i would be able to buy
any computer parts within the next 3 years. I need to preserve the
computer as
long as i can. Thank you
Electricity is no problem for me :)
At 10:47 11/06/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks for using NetForward!
>http://www.netforward.com
>v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v
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>Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
>
>> You can do this with the hdparm utility, wich is avalible on the
>> distributions
>>
>> It's easy to setup:
>>
>> hdparm -S timeout /dev/some_hard_disk
>
>Do you really want to spin down your disks? Like turning your
>computer off, doesn't spinning the disks down only to spin them up
>later cause more wear than just letting them spin?
>
>Kevin
>
>--
>Kevin Chu
>Mail: kevin@portal.ca
>URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/6871/
>
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 18:56:44 -0400
From: Michael GoodSon <NewsReply@biogate.com>
To: kevin@portal.ca
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Subject: Computer On/OFF
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Dear Friends
Which is better :
1) ALways turn on your computer ( though you're not using it all the time )
2) Turn on all time w/ suspends when not used
3) ON-FF
which is better ? My country got crisis, i don't think i would be able to buy
any computer parts within the next 3 years. I need to preserve the
computer as
long as i can. Thank you
Electricity is no problem for me :)
At 10:47 11/06/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks for using NetForward!
>http://www.netforward.com
>v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v
>
>Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote:
>
>> You can do this with the hdparm utility, wich is avalible on the
>> distributions
>>
>> It's easy to setup:
>>
>> hdparm -S timeout /dev/some_hard_disk
>
>Do you really want to spin down your disks? Like turning your
>computer off, doesn't spinning the disks down only to spin them up
>later cause more wear than just letting them spin?
>
>Kevin
>
>--
>Kevin Chu
>Mail: kevin@portal.ca
>URL: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/6871/
>
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Faithfully Yours,
Michael GoodSon
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