On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Joel Cruz wrote:
> Each night at 11:30 pm a switch cuts the power of the office, and the
> UPSs power down the servers. At 6:00 AM the same switch brings the power
> on.
Power on is more stressful to a computer component then simply running is.
You are shortening the life of all your computer components. In particular,
watch the power supplies and the hard drive spindle motors.
You are beating the hell out of your UPSes by running them every day.
Many shops use the over-night to run backups, virus-scans, and other
maintenance tasks. You are eliminating that window.
If the servers fail to power down gracefully for whatever reason, you risk
data loss/corruption.
You are doing something unusual. That means the hardware and software
OEMs may not have tested for it. That means you may run into Weird
Problems(TM).
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Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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