# Leaving your pc on 24/7...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaving-your-pc-on-24-7/177732>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [May 27, 2003, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaving-your-pc-on-24-7/177732 "2003-05-27T09:53:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaving-your-pc-on-24-7/177732/1 "2003-05-27T09:53:32Z")

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Some folks like to keep their machine powerd up all the time (usually with energy-saving features enabled.) They claim this saves wear-and-tear, as avoiding a power cycle is a good thing.

Others only power up their systems when they want to use them. They claim this does the same thing, as it’s only on 1/3 to 1/5 of the time as the other 'puter.

I was going to make this a GQ, but after a brief search, it seems the jury is still out.

I’m with the folks leaving it on all of the time, if only for the SETI@home good feeling I get 😉

Any thoughts?

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**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaving-your-pc-on-24-7/177732/2 "2003-05-27T10:00:59Z")

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One thought: Have you read the staff report?

[http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mturnoff.html](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mturnoff.html)

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**Author:** ![Desmostylus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaving-your-pc-on-24-7/177732/3 "2003-05-27T10:01:45Z")

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Or, you could have put it in Comments on Staff Reports, 'coz there’s a report: [Should I leave my computer running when it’s not in use?](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mturnoff.html), or you could have put it in the currently active thread in COSR: [shut it down v. leave it running](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=181893) 🙂

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaving-your-pc-on-24-7/177732/4 "2003-05-27T10:09:47Z")

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Doh! Thanks, folks.

Someone please kill this, quick!

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaving-your-pc-on-24-7/177732/5 "2003-05-27T10:20:57Z")

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**Moderator’s Note:** Since that other COSR thread has gone off on some tangent about URL’s, I think I’ll just go ahead and move this one over to COSR (even if it didn’t technically start out as a Comment on a Staff Report).

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**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2003, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaving-your-pc-on-24-7/177732/6 "2003-05-27T10:33:46Z")

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Well, that would work, too…

Thanks!