eap;505353 Wrote: > The upside of any energy conservation in sleeping your PC is outweighed > by the downside of issues with your squeezebox
Well I think that is a personal decision that each person has to make, not a one-size-fits-all answer. Personally I am prepared to do a little bit more work trying to work out the 'issues', or find other solutions (such as a low-power NAS or PC) which will lower my energy usage, while still allowing me to enjoy things like SqueezeBox and my computer. I suspect your figure of $10-20 per year savings is on the low side, but it depends on where you live and the rates you pay of course. I also find your argument about wear-and-tear on the parts from sleeping/shutting down a PC regularly to be questionable - I've been putting my PCs into sleep or shutting them down completely when not in use for years and have yet to encounter any irregular rate of failure and have never heard any evidence of this from elsewhere either. Refer to the following: http://www.samhouston.net/guide/myth.htm#computer -- plutoz ------------------------------------------------------------------------ plutoz's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35754 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73246 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
