Timeline for How can I persuade colleagues to turn their computers off when leaving the office?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
7 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 7, 2022 at 5:44 | comment | added | Ed Grimm | @RichB I've worked somewhere that had factory computers left on 365.24 days per year for more than a decade and they still worked. It was the late 90s, and I remember a coworker replacing an 8086 that was covered in dust despite having been in a class 1000 clean room the whole time. (The work just grew to more than it could handle.) On the flip side, their test machines were typically power cycled 10+ times a day and never lasted a year before something failed. Modern SSDs survive many more write cycles. | |
| Feb 5, 2022 at 5:36 | comment | added | Loren Pechtel | @TiagoCardoso Scale has nothing to do with this. It's the cost per developer of power vs the cost of the developer's time. | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 21:00 | comment | added | Donald | @RichB - It is extremely hard on a system to be turned off every single day then turned on. I have machines I left on 24/7 for years without a single failure. A CPU was designed to be left on, there are machines that exist, that remained turned on for years without a reboot. | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 19:59 | comment | added | Rich B | I'm also surprised you didnt mention hardware longevity. Hard drives dont last forever, especially SSD's. The average can be around ~3000 write cycles. While your computer is turned on this flash memory is being accessed, albeit at a much lower rate, but still active. Not to mention the CPU, RAM, motherboard, GPU, monitor, fan... These components all will wear faster, so its just simply their power cost that OP is concerned with. | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 19:25 | comment | added | Tiago Cardoso | You might need to consider the cost at scale. Its not the same thing considering one pc and considering 10 or 100. Besides, OP point may not be (only) about saving money, but avoiding a waste of resource. Besides, the 3 seconds early line of thinking may be risky - maybe that's the reason why there's so much waste of resources around the world. | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 19:15 | review | First posts | |||
| Apr 29, 2019 at 20:35 | |||||
| Apr 29, 2019 at 19:10 | history | answered | No Reply | CC BY-SA 4.0 |