I agree, although systems may still fail even if you're good about
powering them off when they aren't in use.
Some may quibble over how much Ford and other companies are actually
saving, but I think it's a no brainer that savings can be made, both in
power consumption and life expectancy, when systems that aren't needed
are powered off. I actually think the cost is a bit more incideous to
track. How much is spent when a key systemneeds to be accessed during
off hours, and someone needs to go in to physically bring it up or the
infrastructure needs to be put in place to allow for the remote powering
up of a system. Also, with work being done around the bglobe and aroudn
the clock, the number of "off hours" is always shrinking. IMHO, powering
off systems you don't need is important, but even greater savings can be
made when systems autonomically power themselves off or throttle down
their power usage when they aren't busy.
BTW, how is this related to the blind or the visually impaired, at least
more so than any other computer user?
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Christopher
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On 3/24/2010 12:16 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 When I discard a machine it is because it is obsolete,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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