On 11 Oct 2004, at 22:57, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Certainly my previous machine managed 3 years or more with no hardware failures, and that was on 24/7
Not comparing to the department I work in. We get some power cuts planned which results myself having to shut down all the Linux boxes at the weekend. Then when it comes to Monday, I find around 2 or 3 boxes refuses to boot up. We took those machines back and found out that most of them either had a burnout component or just completely dead (Those are AMD/Intel). Comparing to the Mac/Sun Ultra/Blade boxes, they are remarkably superior than x86.. So that quote 'you get what you paid for' exists well to those!
I *always* turn monitors off but one of my systems does run 24 hours.
This really bugs me, there is a reasonable excuse for leaving machines switched on, but why do people not turn off monitors (or at least set up power management to standby the monitor after a period of inactivity).
Not only do you have the whole waste of energy thing, but CRT's (and even the backlight on LCD's) have a finite life.
People at work don't turn them off which really then annoys me along with the practice of them logging off every night.... can't be all perfect can we?