[G4] Sleep or leave running?

[C D T]

On our 2002 QS dual 1gig we have 5 hard drives - 2 ATA, 3 SCSI, two 
digital monitors - a17" apple studio & a 19" viewsonic, and we sleep it 
using the Apple monitor any time we leave it for more than the 15 
minutes in which it will sleep automatically.  That's the setup the man 
who bought the computer new used and he said he had no problems with 
it.  He sold it to us because he was upgrading to an intel mac.  Just 
my 2 cents for what it's worth.

Dan


On Jan 9, 2008, at 3:25 PM, leestate at sbcglobal.net wrote:

> I seem to remember a "word" from "Apple" a few
> years ago,, to the effect that hard drives "wear"
> most, in the sense of becoming more liable to
> failure, in the surging of power, mostly, from a
> cold start, next, from a restart, last (but not
> least), waking from sleep.
>
> Accordingly, "Apple" recommended to be
> "witholding" about putting to sleep - (so as to
> avoid myriad "wake-ups), and not even to shut
> down unless eight hours (or so) defined the
> period before restart.
>
>
> For what it's worth, with four drives, (two in a
> type raid array, two ATA additional drives, in a
> vintage (2001) G4 DP500 Dual, Gigabit Ethernet,
> (Tiger), I put this machine to sleep literally
> "at will", whenever I'm going to leave it for,
> say, an hour or more...and have been doing this
> several times a day, since...September of...2001!
> ( I hate to hear "everything 'spinning'", all the
> "whoosh!)
>
> Of course...I know...I've been exceedingly
> fortunate with this machine, (my favorite amongst
> another of same vintage, and a fairly new G5
> (2.3).
>
> Steve L
>
>>>> Am Jan 8, 2008 um 5:47 PM schrieb Pat Crowe:
>>>>
>>>>> I visit my G4QS 2002 many times during the
>> day and between times
>>>>> I put it to sleep.
>>>>> The question is, would it be more
>> beneficial to the computer to
>>>>> just leave it run?
>>>>> PatC.
>>>>>