It will likely shorten the life of the hard drive and/or the power supply.

My machine is gowing on 3-year's now with shut downs averaging about once
every other month.

I started leaving it on when I noticed that the old Novell servers I worked
on were always on and never seemed to have disk failures.  A friend who
worked at Seagate told me that the hardest work a drive can perform is
starting up everyday.

--gary
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-----Original Message-----
From: Errol <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, April 12, 1998 5:13 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Computer always on ?


>Hello Everybody,
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>A friend of mine never switches his computer off.
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>He says that the act of switching a computer on every day
>gives the machine a big "shock" and shortens the life of a
>computer.
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>What do you folks think about this theory ?
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>All the best,
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>Errol Lishman
>Johannesburg
>South Africa
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