Good point, but I don't do it to save electricity.  If IBM did a 5-year study, the study lasted longer than most people keep their computers. In 5 years this computer will be a modern day 286 along with all the peripherals.


>>  I leave mine running 24X7 unless I go away from home, but I always log
>> off and turn off the monitor (uses the most power). I have set up my
>> power scheme in Win 98 to turn off the hard drives after half and hour.
>
>
>Power Saver makes sense on a laptop running off a battery, or if you are
>administering a large network with tens or hundreds of monitors and hard
>drives. But for the single end user, while this feature might save you a
>few pennies of electricity it is VERY hard on your hard drive and monitor.
>The worse thing you can do to a hard drive, or a monitor is to turn them
>off and on all day. But don't take my word on it...IBM did a five year
>study and a  white paper on this and concluded for administrators, that it
>is a crap shoot... what you save now in electricity, you will pay for later
>in short component lifespan. As an end user I would rather pay a few extra
>pennies now to preserve my hard drives and monitors for as long as possible.



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