Turning Pi On and Off

Hi all, anyone know of a good sized case for the pi, wanting to build my own retro console that will house the pi and pidrive etc without looking messy

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I would advise against pulling the plug in and out of the pi without shutting down, I had my Corsair keyboard plugged into mine while I pulled the power and put it back in, it seemed to have fried my keyboard!! Now all I get is blinking lights on the keyboard regardless of what it's plugged into :(
 
Punt said:
I don't turn off any of my pis.
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dirtychinchilla said:
:( why not? Don't they need a rest? I'd rather that converter wasn't running all the time as it puts out a lot of waste heat.
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No, they don't "need a rest". And as for a lot of waste heat....
bledd said:
Just leave it on, uses like 2Watts. Probably costs about £1-2 per year to leave on.
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Barely any power is used at all, they're very low powered devices. The amount of heat is minimal, the total electricity drain is miniscule. Why faff about, just leave 'em on.

It probably costs more to buy one of the shutdown button accessories than it actually does to run a Pi 24/7 for two or three years!
 
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