[amayausers] Re: Turning off Amaya?
- From: "John Yaglenski" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:30:30 -0400
To confuse the issue further
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1459260,00.asp
Quoting:
"If you're the PC guy in the family or some other group, you've probably
been asked this question: "At night should I turn my computer off?"
Ever since normal people have had computers, this question has made the
rounds with a variety of "expert" answers. The early versions presented a
trade-off between power consumption and stress on components. Turning the
computer on or off, so the theory goes and accurately I believe, is the most
physically stressful thing you do to it all day, so I think most experts
have advised that it's better to leave the system on."
"Because I no longer consider myself plugged into the hardware market, I
asked my longtime colleague Nick Stam, Executive Senior Technical Guy at
both PC Magazine and ExtremeTech. I specifically asked him about a newer
theory I'd heard that components are reliable enough in stress conditions
that leaving them on all the time raises the likelihood that you will
encounter problems having to do with long lifetimes, i.e., that you'll run
into the mean time between failures. Nick has no more quantitative data than
I, but he too suspects that the stress of startup and shutdown is more of a
real-world risk than long life.
In recent years, the part I've seen fail most often in PCs is the power
supply, definitely the part that gets stressed the most at power-up and
power-down, but also the one with the most mechanical stress on it."
Now the amaya is at it's core, a computer - but who knows. Fun.
JOHN
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yaglenski
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 3:21 PM
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Subject: [amayausers] Re: Turning off Amaya?
Ron:
I think it all goes back to that thing on whether the jolt of the on / off
process has a wear and tear effect on the electronics. I have seen both
schools of thoughts in the computer world - turn computer off at night -
leave em running.
Maybe a job for myth-busters?
John
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[mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Body Cover
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 3:05 PM
To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [amayausers] Re: Turning off Amaya?
We shut them off, I think of it like this, anything electronic has a life to
the components.
The longer electricity is flowing through the circuitry then the faster it
will have a component burn out and cause the system to fail.
Maybe by shutting off the Amaya I can gain some more up time before
something burns out?
Maybe its a few extra years or a few extra minute, who knows but we take the
precaution.
Ron Vinyard
Body Cover / Magic Stitches
1-888-435-0176
541-471-1504 Fax 541-471-0427
420 SW H Street, Grants Pass, OR 97526-2532
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www.bodycoverdesign.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Image Embroidery" <imageembroidery@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 6:21 AM
Subject: [amayausers] Turning off Amaya?
>I have a strange question.
> Does everyone turn their Amayas "off" at the end of the day?
> The reason I ask is, it is a pain to reach behind mine to turn them on
>and
off. So I am wondering if anyone leaves theirs "on" all
> the time?
> Thanks,
> LuAnn @ Image Embroidery
> Because Your "Image" Matters
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