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In 2024, do you let your computer go to sleep or not ?

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MathWizard:
I have mine set to go to sleep after an hour, and it goes to sleep sometimes, so the 5V standby on the PSU is running, and the RAM on the mobo still gets power.

But I wonder side by side these days which PC would last longer, the one you let go to sleep, and or shut down all the time, vs the one you just leave on.

mendip_discovery:
I still have spinny discs so I keep the main pc on 24x7. It also does some home server stuff as well.

My laptops go to sleep.

Having a smart phone these days I dont sit at the pc as much as I used to.

PlainName:
Screen goes off after 10 mins (mainly to save replacement cost). Entire setup has power removed every night, so that's a bit more frugal than mere 'sleep' :)

tom66:
I probably sleep my PC about 5-10 times per day, it's fine.  It is all SSD though.

There is probably very little difference in longevity.  In favour of sleeping would be lower thermal dissipation on components which extends their life.  In favour of keeping the PC on would be less chance of data corruption due to poorly-behaving programs, and less cyclic loads on the power supply.

I would argue the power bill favours sleeping the PC.  My PC uses about 150W in operation - at current UK on-peak rates that's 5 pence an hour.  So if I leave it running every night for a year (10 hours per night), it'll cost me £164 in electricity.  That's not insignificant, and I haven't put anywhere near that in replacement hardware in to my PC.  The last failure I had was a graphics card which was still covered under warranty.

DiTBho:
laptop/SDD: sleep, wakeup on demand.
server/HDD: power off, wakeup on demand.
NAS/HDD: sleep, wakeup on demand, HDDs power off.

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