nearly all my equipment failures have been network cards and power supplies. None of my servers (which run 24/7) have ever had a power supply fail.
On 10 Oct 2002, Patrick Kelso wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 11:13, Peter Chubb wrote: > > >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Garrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Peter> I wonder what the pros and cons are of leaving ones domestic > > Peter> grade home computer powered up continually. I have one of > > Peter> lionels dual cpu celeron smp motherboards. > > > > > > I have one of those too ... it's been turned on now for 18 months. > > > > I've found that most of my machines have died in one of two > > circumstances: > > -- nearby lightning strike, or > > -- turning on the power. > > > > I can't do much about the first, but the easiest way to fix the > > second is never to power down the machine. > > I also run all my systems 24/7, hell even my windoze boxes have uptime > to boast about, (150 days at one point). Unless I need to change > hardware I generally dont reboot. powering down means that when I want > to use my computer it takes 30seconds+ to get it going, instead of > moving my mouse to wake up the monitor and I'm there. > > I find that if a computer system is running, and the OS doesnt crash, > nothing will go wrong. (whoever heard of a video card dying while in > use, that wasn't overclocked, or already faulty.) As Peter said, its > when you power up that things start to go wrong. > > -- > Cheers, > Patrick Kelso > > Lujan > > GNUPG FingerPrint > C8F0 1635 60D9 F119 6736 FC23 D6F6 611E 4497 6E8B > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
