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On 08/30/2015 06:24 AM, Michel Catudal wrote: |
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> As for shutdowns there are several arguments for and against. What often |
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> kills electronic is the shock between hot and cold so there is an |
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> argument about keeping the system on. |
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> Whether it is always safe to keep the computer on all the time remains |
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> to be proven. |
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Recently I've had to help someone migrate off of a failed computer. This |
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computer was old (I had to find an IDE adapter to recover some files) |
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from late 90s/early 00s. |
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Some time ago I told him to have it running all the time, mostly because |
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of age. So he kept it running nonstop and literally a week or two ago |
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shut it down as he was getting new flooring installed. He called me |
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after hooking it back up again as it wouldn't start. I went over to |
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check and the motherboard finally failed. He hadn't powered it off in |
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4-5 years. |
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For myself I use a smart power bar and suspend my PC when not in use. |
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This caused me all sorts of grief with systemd hanging on shutdown after |
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a suspend, ultimately causing my RAID array to be rebuilt on every |
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reboot/shutdown and so I've finally abandoned it and am running openrc |
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again. |
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The only thing about using suspend is that if the PC is in a sleep state |
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it won't wake up and shut down when the power goes out. This just |
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happened to me yesterday (big wind storm here.) |
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Dan |
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