[ubuntu-in] Off Topic: Running Laptop/Desktop for a long time?

[Mohamed Khaleel]

Would not be a problem unless you are not doing a repeated usage of Flash
memory and Harddisk during your uptime. The flash memories have a limited
number of write cycles(But I dont think flash memory will be used much).
Each sectors on the hard disk will have a limited number of R/W cycles
(usually lot more than we would need). But when you keep the system on
running applications like torrents, then the hard disk could get affected
after some time.

Regards,
Khaleel


On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:01 PM, $reeHari <theneoindian at gmail.com> wrote:

> if long uptimes can kill your laptop , my laptop would 've been dead by now
> .. My current uptime is 5 days and 20 hrs . . I'm seriously thinkin about
> setting it up as a server ;-)
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Narendra Diwate <narendra.diwate at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 22:32, nagendra prasad <nagendra802000 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> This is just off topic, but I have just noticed that my laptop is running
>>> from 3 days and 2 hrs. My question is will it affect on my laptop's hardware
>>> compenets or not? Will it be harmful for a laptop or a desktop to run for a
>>> long time? I know it depends on temperature, but its raining from past 4
>>> days in Hyderabad so its pretty much cool here.
>>>
>>
>> I dont think it will affect in any adverse way in the short and immediate
>> term, but long term yes. All components have a life span in running life and
>> you are using it if it left running. TV's are supposed to have a life of
>> 10000 hours or so that i had heard long ago. But if you have good power
>> management that shuts down the monitor, winds down the hard disk and so on,
>> it should not make a perceptible difference.
>>
>> On the other hand if its not doing anything why not suspend or hibernate
>> instead.
>>
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