* Paul McHale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake thus: > > spin at all. and with the near 2 dozen IBM disk drive failures > > ive had in the past 6 months, im even more for never turning > > off the system. > > When I worked PC support contracts at Honeywell, we would always tell people > to leave the CPU (and HD) running. Electrically, there are a lot of > transients at startup. With older supplies, it was probably a lot more of > an issue. Systems that weren't power cycled once a day were almost trouble > free even back then.
Yes, power supplies like running, but then again, from my time as a A/V repairman, I learnt that the thing that often blows first is the capacitors in the power supply. And they go because the *dry out*, i.e. the warmer they are (over a long time) the more likely they are to go. Regards, Stig -- brautaset.org Registered Linux User 107343