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

I used to run 3 (AD/Exchange/DNS/DHCP box, Storage Server, Media Centre for Xbox 360) but I soon realised it was silly. I got rid of the domain and got someone else to host it instead and then set the media box to startup each day at a certain time.
 
I have 4 PCs:-

1 gaming
1 surfing/game/whatever else
1 connected to the TV
1 Smoothwall

Out of all of them, only the Smoothwall PC is on 24/7. Yesterday i installed the newest version of SM and that was the first time in 4 months that I had powered it down. It would have been longer if a power cut hadnt rebooted it. The smoothwall PC is a Duron 650 in an old Abit KT7 motherboard. I doubt that i uses that much power.
 
None, because I pay the electricity bill now. However I very occasionally leave my desktop on overnight downloading.

When I was at university I didn't pay any bills and so I had two PCs running 24/7, one as a file server, the other running IPCop (QoS/packet-shaping) as my housemates all used BitTorrent. Also a wireless AP, 3com 24-port switch and a Netgear router. Good times :)
 
Subliminal Aura said:
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.
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Only my Dads runs 24/7.
 
LordSplodge said:
And therefore no ON button! :D
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How did it come to be? nobody knows!

more seriously, I have a P182 case which has very good dust control, *** top vent I have custom cut a piece of flat foam padding which lets air through but traps dust and is easy to clean so no dust pollution is passed through there and the front dust guards are very good dust guards anyway.

My system is virtually silent too judging by people who comment on lack of noise when I have people round ;p
 
If Im downloading I'll leave it on for as long as it takes.

Most days I'll switch it on before I go to work and let it download a radio show, at about 10pm until 2am then my auto shutdown util kicks in.

Pointless leaving it switched on if its not downloading or recording, for me.
 
I don't pay the electricity for my house, else i'm sure i'd have very different usage habbits
Especially with prices so high at the moment!
 
Well I leave on 1 Server, 1 Router and 1 Wireless Access Point.

I have two multi-socket Surge protector thingies, one with all the things I can switch off (my pc, monitors, amps, printers etc) and the other with the things I want leaving on.

So when I leave I hit one wall switch and all unnecessary things go off. Spent ages working out the cost of this, and it was well worth the effort.

The server is micro ATX too with only a 200 watt PSU, and has power savings when not used.

I use the Server as a web server, download machine, and remote desktop.
It also has a freeview card it it with GBPVR running. Again, I can use the web interface to schedule TV recordings.
It has other purposes, Its a file server for the other PCs in the house. It has a cool 'make last second ebay bids' software ;) which occur round the clock.
 
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