I guess I'll have to part with this because we're allowed only three strikes per day but Many hard drives fail during power up and also, what would be the cost of keeping that software functioning properly and maintaining its use on all those systems, adding and subtracting systems and so on.  I and many others have kept computers running for years and only re-power because windows is so unstable that it has to be flushed sometimes.
On Mar 24, 2010, at 1:16 PM, Sun Sounds of Arizona wrote:

Actually, I've always done this both personally and in my organization. Not
only do you save power costs, but you save wear and tear on the moving parts
like the power supply and mother board fans, as well as the hard drives.
Powering up takes far les power than keeping something running endlessly. If
the computers are on proper surge protection, then you risk nothing from the
power on surge either.  I can make computers last far beyond there normal
useful life this way. When I discard a machine it is because it is obsolete,
never because it has failed.  They just don't fail if you shut them down
over night and on weekends.



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interesting but I wonder how much it costs to power up all those systems and
what it costs in life of the systems.


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