Aside from any cost constraints, there's the environmental aspect: you're using energy that you don't need to use, and it probably comes from burning fossil fuel. If it's not a big hassle, just stop doing it. Like turning off the lights when you leave a room or the heater/ac when you're not at home.
You have a point about powering the box on and off being harder on the components than just leaving it on all the time. If you are doing a bunch of recording during each day, then it probably is best to just leave the machine on. In my case I'll often go > 24 hours between recordings, sometimes several days. Not much of a reason to leave the machine on when it is busy a few % of the time. The components of the system are designed to deal with some power cycling. Typically new components either fail quickly or they last. Usually you'll be able to get them replaced under warranty when they puke. Aside from a rash of bad hard drives (replaced under warranty, run in a 24x7 box), I almost never have had a component die before it is retired during an upgrade.
Interesting OT research topic: where is the line between leaving the machine on all the time and power cycling? It seems like there's a point where the wear from being on without being used much is more than the wear from startup for those occasional uses would be. Can anybody point to data?
-Pete
John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 21:43, Jarod Wilson wrote:
On Monday 14 March 2005 04:21, Phill Edwards wrote:
I went looking for this as nvram-wakeup's not working for me any more for some reason, and I remembered that Jarod uses wake-on-lan from another machine.
I think you may have me confused with someone else, I've never used WOL. All my boxes are just on 24x7.
Often wondered about why people are so concerned about WOL for a myth box. Where is Electricity so expensive that leaving it on 24/7 is a problem?
If you turn off the monitor you kill off 80% of the electricity usage
anyway.
I've metered boxes doing nothing. They draw squat.
Its harder on the machine being powered on and off all the time than it is to just leave it on.
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