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On 06/02/12 12:07, Tony Sumner wrote:
Hard disks can seize if not run for a while and when they get old they can seize just stopping them. Some things are a lot more vulnerable to emp when switched off but still connected to the mains - I had a whole rack of hi-fi things fried by lightning as they were 'turned off'. Also twenty years ago things seemed to be designed to last - nowadays they're engineered to fail just outside of a reasonable lifetimeOn Feb 06, 2012, Jack Oley wrote:I don't believe that there's any good reason for leaving equipment -including routers - on when not being used. Where's the evidence to the contrary? An anecdote. I have a pair of Homeplug ethernet bridges that are on all the time. I was away over Christmas so I switched everythig off. When I came back I couldn't boot the PC because the bridge was broken. Not evidence of course, just a bit odd. Tony
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