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

Just 1, my main one.

It has a TV card so records TV randomly during the day, is used as a file server for MP3/videos/recorded tv which I stream to my xbox as well as several other things.
 
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.

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.
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That's what I discovered when I really thought about what I was planning on buying/using at home. I realised that I only needed the one machine with something like VMWare for the other operating systems I wanted to play with. Got rid of my Linux server and settled on just using a virtual machine as I don't need things like local DNS/file server for my needs just now.

At the moment I have my main desktop for office stuff/gaming and a media centre PC that I could probably get rid of too. The main PC is only on overnight if I'm downloading. :)
 
I used to have quite a few machines on 24x7, but I have been cutting down and simplifying what I'm running. Now I just have one Athlon64 box running SUSE Linux which does all of the serving facilities on the network , web, database, samba, dns, dhcp etc etc etc) and a HTPC which spends most of its time hibernating and only turns itself on to record things, (and when I want to watch things).

Everything else is only powered up when needed and in some cases that is very rarely (must get rid of some more things :) ).
 
I just have a laptop and that is on 24/7. Of course, there is no real reason why I should leave it on but then there is also no real reason why I should turn it off either and if I do, I have to boot up again thus wasting time.
 
1 Attic PC, that's the only one that stays on 24/7 at home (I don't work with PC's or at home either so probably a waste of time and energy.

The original reason was to keep hold of the lots of pics and other info, both downloaded and my own personal stuff on tap, the trouble is I like a fast gaming PC so ended up building a special rig for that.
So the attic PC is now just a stack of five big HDD's and hasn't fallen over in two years, Although I did power it down for this Christmas as I bu***** off on holiday for three weeks.
Tha gaming pc is clean and tidy and as fast as it needs to be as everything is saved to the attic one.
Also comes in handy when I'm wireless on the laptop, anything I've worked on / done on the gaming PC is also at my fingertips.
Serves it's purpose I suppose.

So how much is that costing me to run a month (AMD3200+, 5 WD caviar 400GB HDD's 2GB RAM) just as a server.. oops lol, (my old gaming rig)
 
We have two file/web servers in the basement of our house that are on 24/7 and my PC is usually on 24/7 as well. It sounds daft but I actually have trouble sleeping without the noise of the fans :/
 
paradigm said:
To all you people saying "server", what do you mean by server?

Mine hosts a server 2003 domain.
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I'd guess a file server for most people.

My one was Debian GNU/Linux on an Epia M6000-based PC. Command-line only and quite nice to use for Samba/DNS/Apache. Decided eventually that I didn't need any of that, just a proper backup schedule.
 
I have one that I keep on 24/7, because I can't be bothered to turn it off. I also hate the environment and want everyone to burn in hellfire. Oh, and I run S@H too. :p
 
1 : A crummy old system (1.3 celery, some hdds... bout 70w draw ? :p ) that serves media, and doubles as a download machine and print server. My PC and HTPC get knocked off at night and only turn back on when i get in from work / weekend.
 
my laptop is on 24/7 but it goes into hibernate after 10 minutes. I used to run a couple 24/7 but I ended asking myself 'what's the point?' and there was none apart from uptime brownie points :)
 
I run 3 pcs and 1 laptop 24/7 but I'm hoping to get this down to 2 pcs as one of them has less uses then it used to and try and save on electric. I keep them on for a reason as I run domains, eggdrops, web servers, ftp servers, webcams you name it. I don't get why people who don't run any sort of server processes of any kind leave theirs on.
 
I have one PC runnning server 2003, does everything (file server, print server, dhcp, hamachi vpn, media streaming).
The laptop only really gets used at work, and the home pc is usually off if i'm not sitting at it. Although i've had a problem with the server so it is out of the loft and both the server and pc are on constantly at the moment.
Like someone else said, it does heat the room quite well so i'm not overly fussed about it at the moment.
 
one, it's a htpc running linux/mythTV and i haven't yet figured how to make it reliably wake from suspend in order to do scheduled records.

although saying that, i've a tenancy to leave the laser printer, photo printer, wifi router and cable modem all on overnight. just never seem to think to switch 'em off.
 
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