Post how many PCs you run 24/7 at home ?

Subliminal Aura · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:28

Just curious as to how much noise and dust pollution I'm pushing out.

This is strictly machines that are ON 24/7 and for machines that have a purpose (distributed computers / farms and crunchers which are barely motheboards ram and cpu are EXCLUDED).

So heres what I have left at home :

Main room where I work : 2 desktop pcs bridged linux and windows + 1 embedded PC which does my routing, X10/ automation / wap gateway. = 3

Noise room : 1 Filestore seconday backup store with webcache/dnscache, 1 dev box databases webapps primary backup store, 1 win2003 server databases etc. 1 hot backup for a live machine in a data centre. = 4

Excluding crunchers, temporary machines and laptops that takes me to 7 run 24/7.

Gilly · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:29

lookitsjonno · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:30

none at home, just use hibernate instead.

i cannot see why anyone in the world would need 7 PC's on in a single household. sort it out.

Gilly · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:31

jonno.co.uk said:
i cannot see why anyone in the world would need 7 PC's on in a single household. sort it out.

I hope he works constantly from home otherwise its pretty stupid.

Subliminal Aura · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:32

jonno.co.uk said:
none at home, just use hibernate instead.

i cannot see why anyone in the world would need 7 PC's on in a single household. sort it out.

Yeh its true I've been going through the threads looking at peoples postings and I think I have got it well wrong ! As Gilly says 'NONE' is the best policy since they do waste a lot of time

1337z0r · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:32

I leave mine on 24/7. I used to fold but didnt bother setting it up. I normally just download stuff.

Martins · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:34

2, fileserver and Media Centre.

Subliminal Aura · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:34

Gilly said:
I hope he works constantly from home otherwise its pretty stupid.

Dammit please don't rub it in ! I came to the stark conclusion that maybe something is wrong with me over the last hour hence the purpose of this thread....

Surely there must be some nerd out there whose built a cluster at home :eek:

Fingers cross in anticipation of NOT being labeled super nerd

Cupra · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:34

i dont see the point in leaving any one. mines on when im using it or maybe if im downloading but thats it so for me

NONE

Adam · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:38

None, im not a geek

Can see why you would perhaps want to leave your computer on over night for download, especially with ISP caps, but to constantly leave a computer on day after day 24/7 thats pretty pointless. I can't think of a single reason why you would need to do so in a non commercial environment.

RobinL · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:39

None. Running PCs 24/7 is actually quite expensive!

DevilsAdvocate · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:41

None.

badgermonkey · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:43

Mine's on 24/7 (Just the one, 580W psu). But that's because i'm paying extortionate amounts of money to live in halls, so since I don't have to pay bills I'm going to damn well make it worth the money!

sunlitsix · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:45

only occasionally if im downloading some large files

G-MAN2004 · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:45

DevilsAdvocate said:
None.

Gilly · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:48

Subliminal Aura said:
Dammit please don't rub it in ! I came to the stark conclusion that maybe something is wrong with me over the last hour hence the purpose of this thread....

Surely there must be some nerd out there whose built a cluster at home

Fingers cross in anticipation of NOT being labeled super nerd

It seems to me that you're overplaying this, and you're showing off that you have so many machines running 24/7 doing different things.

I have everything you have, but I have it in the office where it should be.

The only reason I can think someone would want/need what you have is to learn the various software you're using, but that certainly doesn't need 24/7 and you could do it in a virtual environment for a lot less.

HangTime · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:52

I think the longest I've ever left my PC on without rebooting was about 8 days, and I haven't done that sort of thing in years.

I don't leave any computers switched on when I'm not sat at it unless either:
a) They are doing something (transferring files, defragging, virus scan etc)
b) I think I will be coming back within the hour to use it again

Rebelius · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:53

None. I pay the leccy bills now

When I was at home and in halls last year I had 1 PC running 24/7. But now I've got my own flat.

Subliminal Aura · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:55

Gilly said:
It seems to me that you're overplaying this, and you're showing off that you have so many machines running 24/7 doing different things.

Seriously Gilly - I'm not milking it I have been doing this for years, as I said I came to the stark conclusion after viewing numerous Post pics of your setup threads here that maybe I have a bit too much going over the top and the yes I should just maybe get a quad core and vmware some of my stuff.

As far as keeping a hot backup of a machines in a DC is concerned that is vital as disks do fail under such circumstances I can just pull a disk out of a machine run down to a DC pop it in rewrite the boot header and away it goes.

Think I'll move a lot of the services off the machines and make better usage of my equipment

//edit probably a key factor to why I run these machines is to ensure that they are all hot backups. I have lost data and its not a pretty scenario and yes I am a developer

Adam · 11 Mar 2007 at 13:57

Why though? If it works for you then why change? However, for the everyday home user it is pointless leaving your computer on 24/7. Mine gets turned off when I leave the house unless im downloading.