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heretic
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| Csimbi wrote: | My PC has been on more or less 24/7 for the past 7 years. For the 4 years before that, it was on about 2/3rd of the day.
How long did the gameguru server run before it got upgraded?
I guess the video is about some utter nonsense. I did not even watch it.
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I wanted to post to this discussion a week ago, but I only got around to it now. I keep my computers and clients' computers running nonstop for years, partly because of remote management, but mainly because of reliability. Very soon I understood that a computer that runs nonstop lasts much longer than one that is switched on and off every day. It should be noted that hard drives that spin up had a big share in this.
I probably don't need to mention here the Westerd Digital Green drives, which had to be woken up by some software utility every 15 minutes so that they didn't fall into sleep mode). Who did not do this, the disk surprisingly went away very soon.
It's also true that SSDs have changed the game a lot and there they are, no problem to allow the computer to sleep mode without suffering drastically.
As far as the server is concerned, it's clear there, so nonstop operation is expected  I don't know how many years the Gameguru server was running before, but Marek said the other server was running for about 12 years |
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Sabot
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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It’s dense politicians and governments that buy into dodgy deals. No one in the world can stop political mismanagement. Every frigging country buys from each other, inc America. It’s pure greed, but ball I was saying, which was bloody obvious, to quote your electricity price was like me quoting my pasta prices. Just bizarre in a conversation about leaving PCs on.
Like I said, 3 western digital 9TB mechanicalHDD on/off going on 13 years ZERO issues, inc the PSU and case fans.
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heretic
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| Sabot wrote: | It’s dense politicians and governments that buy into dodgy deals. No one in the world can stop political mismanagement. Every frigging country buys from each other, inc America. It’s pure greed, but ball I was saying, which was bloody obvious, to quote your electricity price was like me quoting my pasta prices. Just bizarre in a conversation about leaving PCs on.
Like I said, 3 western digital 9TB mechanicalHDD on/off going on 13 years ZERO issues, inc the PSU and case fans.
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But the electricity prices were normal until the summer of last year. But then something happened and gas and electricity became very expensive, and that has continued ever since. The war made it worse. Technically, my country has cheap electricity, but we have to deliver it to the exchange in Germany and then buy it back at 5 times the price. So those PCs running everywhere are a thing of the past.
Fortunately, I have Teamviewer everywhere and it supports remote wake-up of the stations, which already have SSDs everywhere. So it's cool. I've replaced a lot of faulty HDDs in the last 25 years and the green editions really suffered for it (and not only these), now I manage over 1500 computers and about 30 physical servers...your 3x WD 9TB 13 years old is a typo or a ?, at that time you coult buy a 3TB HDD as maximum capacity! 
https://www.wired.com/2010/10/western-digitals-3tb-drive-brings-more-than-32-bit-can-handle/ |
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