[G4] Sleep or leave running?

[John Niven]

OK but how does that prove that you would have had
MORE problems if you turned the equipment off. If you
had you would have saved the district some energy
costs for sure (and us taxpayers).

And are you denying that servers usually come with
redundant power supplies? Why would that be? Except
Xserves of course. Apple had to be different.....

Five years is not a long time in terms of component
wearout. And the G4's were replaced because they had
reached the end of there "usefull" life (by Dells -
that sucks). We LEM'ers know better than that though.

John

--- nagable at comcast.net wrote:

> To put a fly in your ointment:
> 
> I used a Power Mac 5500 as a server from 1997 to
> 2005, and 3 G4s from 2000 to 2005. Never shut them
> down.  They were still going when they were replaced
> by Dell servers.  I repaired Macs for a school
> district and rarely had a power supply problem. 
> They were usually left running in the computer labs.
> 
> For what it's worth.
> 
> Nate
>  -------------- Original message
> ----------------------
> From: jonny <g4 at salemoregon.com>
> > >I've spent 29 years in the semiconductor industry
> and
> > >have qualified many product after various
> "stress"
> > >tests.
> > >
> > >No-one has ever suggested a "turn-on, turn-off"
> test
> > >:-)
> > >
> > >We do however perform accelerated life tests at
> above
> > >normal Voltages and temperatures. I have to tell
> you
> > >that semiconductors DO wear out with continuous
> usage.
> > >
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > Thank you, John <all>...for an interesting &
> informative thread.
> > 
> > I'm going to begin shutting down when I'm through
> for the day, and 
> > sleeping when I'm inactive.  I used to do this ALL
> the time, then for 
> > whatever reason, I stopped doing it about a year
> ago.
> > 
> > Thanks for the reminder to protect my mac AND
> conserve energy.
> > 
> > jonny
> 
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