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