Who leaves their system on 24/7 like me?

[lukestrothman]

I'm just curious how many of you let your systems run 24/7... I'm talking not even a standby. My system is on all the time... I sleep my monitors but that's about it.

Why I don't know, I work from my office on my home-dt quite a bit, and run a lot of media at night off my system. Other than that there is really no reason, but I do let it run all the time...

Who's with me!

 

[Arbiter Odie]

I leave mine on. I'm always worried that if I turn it off, the vrms will blow when I power it back on

Also, I hate waiting for the bios to load. I'm impatient like that, heh.

 

[ScrewySqrl]

I generally leave mine on.

Superstitiously believe power off/on is worse for the caps that just running

 

[freakdiablo]

My main desktop? No, I'll do a complete shutdown when I'm not using it. I'm not paying the power bill, so I'd rather not **** anyone off. In fact I don't really leave any system running 24/7. They're all running SSD boot drives except my NAS, so I don't really have anything that goes from totally off to useable in more than ~25 seconds.

 

[rc185]

i leave mine on all time.

 

[Tweaked1024]

I shut down, I believe the two schools of thought are A- like squrl stated, caps like to stay on, or B- rebooting software, windows....is good remove memory leakage and reduce temp fe sizes. Course, done this since like... Well almost 30 yrs or so. 24/7=better for hardware on/off= better for software. Hoping to hear some thoughts on this thread, any truth to either with current day OS's and hardware ?

 

[Efonzerellie]

Been leaving mine on throughout almost every single day for that last 4-5 years, monitor off

 

[TiZakit]

Mine stays on. Plex server plus a few other things need to run all the time.

Much easier to jump on for 3 minutes if you don't need to wait for boot up.

Prior to this I kept it in an S3 or S4 state (I can't remember)

 

[_Jay_]

24/7/365

 

[wagex]

i used to shut mine down... and then...

 

[lukestrothman]

I agree, on all the time ftw!

 

[(G{in}[AK)TION]]

i leave mine on all the time. and they are mining when they are "idle". i do turn them off to maintenance them every few days though.

 

[KonaKona]

Always leave mine one. Gotta love that uptime. Don't think I've gotten very far past 2 months though.

Monitors go off however.

 

[larrymoencurly]

My computer has to run continuously to keep certain people alive, so no.

 

[MongGrel]

My mains on 24/7m and don't mine or anything.

Well, maybe a few other things

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

Well, the old girl has not seen more than 2 hours of shutdown since I picked up mining..... so ya, 24/7/365

 

[Mjolnir]

Only my laptop never really goes off. But it's a laptop... Lol.

All other computers in the house are shut down when not in use. And they're all ssd based so 30 seconds and they're all back on anyway...

That said, my main computer has an issue with booting. And I'm not sure if it's hardware or bios. But once it's on I've not had any issues...

Even when recovering from sleep it might not like it... Eh.

 

[NiHaoMike]

I leave my D2700 home server on all the time. That's what it's made for. Only uses 20W or so once the main hard drive spins down.

I only leave my main machine running all the time during the winter months or if I need it to be running for something I'm doing. Averages 200W when optimized for performance per watt, which turns out to be about 3.4GHz for my particular setup. (I have a cron script that checks for performance-critical apps every minute and automatically unlocks the full 4GHz overclock I'm currently running.)

Test setups aren't even plugged in unless I'm using them.

 

[Pierre3400]

My miners run 24/7, my main rig, runs while im home, which is commonly a 7 hour period, on days i have nothing better to do.

 

[Hardass]

All on ALL the time. Running F@H. So should all of you.