Board creep and motor fatigue are two big factors that used to plague PCs, and both have improved significantly over the years. More items are integrated or mechanically fastened down these days, and drive technology is simply better. Even if you leave you computer on, most are set to spin down the drives anyway. This has been reasonably true for the last 10 years, save the unfortunate few that had budget build Quantum Bigfoot drives in the late 90's (5.25" drives take more ummf to spin up).
I'm a network administrator, and I've never noted a difference. I have a PC at home that is nearly 7 years old, all original components, and has been powered on and off daily through that entire span of time. The one next to it ran for 9 years, before being mothballed, then recommissioned for Slimserver. That said, my slimserver is on 24/7, just as our servers at work are on 24/7, for availability. Power consumption is minimal anyway, but I see no reason to leave something on based solely on the old "lifespan" arguement. Dynamic addresses (i.e. DHCP) have never been a great option for servers. As already mentioned, if you assign the slimserver a static IP, or reserve it in your DHCP server, your SB won't have trouble finding the server anymore. I actually like the reserve option, since the IP will "return", even if you reinstall or switch the OS. -- GlennT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GlennT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10243 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35792 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
