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Re: About always-on
12/25/10 05:59 AM
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> From an experience standpoint: > > I run both a development server and my personal PC 24/7. Have been running PC's this > way since the 386 days. Generally the power supplies are the only point of failure if > you keep everything well ventilated. I haven't had a drive failure since the early > '00s. I do upgrade motherboards and such every 3-5 years, and I'll rotate a new hard > drive in the mix every so often and remove the oldest.
I run my personal pc 24/7 too... I reboot when I need to, after an install, etc. I haven't had a hard drive failure since around 2002-3 (knock on wood)... at that time, I would power off the pc every day at least... but I think someone on here recommended not powering down so often...
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