<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">On 01/09/08, Pat Crowe <<A href="mailto:crowesnest@aapt.net.au">crowesnest@aapt.net.au</A>> wrote:</FONT></P> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 12.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">would it be more beneficial to the computer to just leave it run?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I have a DP450 G4/GE (10.4.10) since it was brand new and invariably have to restart some programs, or the entire machine, when it wakes from sleep. So I've gotten to only sleeping the monitor after a half-hour of an astronomy photos screensaver. Leaving the drives running appears to create no problems. I shut down every night, too, starting fresh in the morning. I replaced the main hard drive last year only to go from 30 to 100 gig; the other two drives - client files, photos, video - only wake when they're needed.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- Peter</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>