Do you power off your PC?
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it's probably about 60 watts. meanwhile some guy is spending god knows what heating his whole mansion, outdoor pool or illuminating his garden/house walls
Sure, but you are still paying for it. And multiply that by hundreds of thousands of people and it soon adds up to a lot of wasted energy. Just seems odd to me. It’s like leaving a tap running.
it's about £14 a year? should he feel guilty when mr millionaire can happily spend that times a few thousand driving his yacht a few inches
tbh if my water company refused to install a meter I'd probably leave the tap running 24/7 all of them
What has it got to do with what anyone else is doing? Seems like a very strange perspective. I don’t leave my car running when I’m not using it, just because the bloke down the road has a bigger house than me.
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I unplug mine when it’s not in use.
my parents got a fountain thing for the cat once...the sound of constant running water was too much, it got binned....good luck leaving all the taps on
No reason, it's just a subject i've often seen on other forums that can get quite a large response.
Reddit example with 16,000 replies.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/75ohrj/do_you_guys_shut_down_your_pc_every_night
Sometimes the subject can get quite complex on some forums with people arguing over the lifespan of electrolytic capacitor and such.
In order to prolong the life of the hard drive in my PC, I don't power off my PC and remove any power plan settings that turn off the hard drive after a set period of inactivity.
I've been at the receiving end of nearly losing my data due to powering a hard drive down. It was at that very moment I realised my backups were inadequate and (probably by pure chance) the freezer trick worked for me. While another hard drive was on order, I copied everything off that drive and kept it spinning until it's replacement arrived and superseded it.
I've been at the receiving end of nearly losing my data due to powering a hard drive down. It was at that very moment I realised my backups were inadequate and (probably by pure chance) the freezer trick worked for me. While another hard drive was on order, I copied everything off that drive and kept it spinning until it's replacement arrived and superseded it.
Yes. Every time I want it use it I start it up and when I'm done I power it down. Like every single other electrical item apart from the fridge, freezer and boiler.
Seems a complete waste if energy to leave it on unless it's mining or downing something productive
Seems a complete waste if energy to leave it on unless it's mining or downing something productive
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The energy on standby is 1W for me and probably for others. 1W. That is 24 Wh per day. A typical UK energy residence is 10,000 Wh per day.
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Switch off everything when not actually using it.
But watt about the other 1million(or how ever many) others that do the same. That 1watt soon adds up.
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It's the other millions who use 10,000 Wh per day not the 24 Wh.
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With the ability to "update and shutdown" Windows automatically, and manual backups happily running in the background, not shutting down offers me no benefits.
Though i sleep it if i've got several windows going on and i'm just having dinner etc.
Though i sleep it if i've got several windows going on and i'm just having dinner etc.