PC maintenance

[George.]

How often do you shut down your pc for maintenance? In the days of old mechanical hdds we had to preserve their life hence we would shut our computers down when we don't need them on most of the time. Nowadays, however, in a world ruled by ssds that's not really a problem since there's only fans spinning as far as mechanical parts go and everything else is electronic...

So, how often do you let your computers rest? Are there  any benefits to scheduling it or just turning it off once in a while does the same job? I personally switch off my laptop a few times a month. Looking forward to see what you guys do. 

[Ansger]

whenever i stop using it. It costs like 15 seconds to boot up a modern PC, not really a long time to wait IMO. 

[HristoBB]

Just like what Ansger said a modern Pc no matter with or without SSD will boot really fast if it has Windows 10 or 8/8.1 installed. 
For me personally i have both HDD and SSD and i am using a PC instead of laptop but i usually turn it off everytime i am not going to be using it for a long time like if i want to go out for a walk or something else i will usually switch it off because there is no point of leaving it on it will wear out moving components faster and it will consume power non the less. 
As for a laptop goes usually just closing the lid will do the job just fine no need to shut it down, sleep will do the same basically in a moving component wearing out point of view . 

[MegaDave91]

Sleep with an occasional shutdown works for me. 

[LiquidGoo]

Depends if i'm hosting a server or not. Usually I just shut it down for the night.

[Imbellis]

23 minutes ago, George. said:

"In the days of old mechanical hdds we had to preserve their life"

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That's still a real thing - HDDs degrade over time as well - just at a very slow rate. I can't remember the specific data on 'em, but I remember topics being made regarding it.

 

I usually just turn my comp off about once a week and do a click compressed air cleaning.

[Donut417]

28 minutes ago, George. said:

How often do you shut down your pc for maintenance? In the days of old mechanical hdds we had to preserve their life hence we would shut our computers down when we don't need them on most of the time. Nowadays, however, in a world ruled by ssds that's not really a problem since there's only fans spinning as far as mechanical parts go and everything else is electronic...

So, how often do you let your computers rest? Are there  any benefits to scheduling it or just turning it off once in a while does the same job? I personally switch off my laptop a few times a month. Looking forward to see what you guys do. 

Mine never turns off. Partly because I use my gaming machine as a Plex server. 

[aezakmi]

I'm still in the days of "old" mechanical drives, because you know 4TB SSDs must cost like $3k each so... no thanks, my home server can turn off the drives isn't using so they last more

still have a working 40gb ATA drive that ran for 17 years non-stop, formatted like 100 times, I'd like to see an SSD do that

[divito]

I never shut it off unless I'm opening it up for some reason. It'll sleep after 30 minutes, but that's it.

[kirashi]

36 minutes ago, George. said:

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So, how often do you let your computers rest? Are there any benefits to scheduling it or just turning it off once in a while does the same job? 

I turn mine off almost every night, unless I need to sleep it because I'm in the middle of something. A modern computer with a boot SSD will start up in about 10-15 seconds which I can totally wait for. Besides, I have NEVER experienced Intel Ready Mode operating as Intel advertises on desktop or All In One PCs, so it makes little sense to sleep my computer.

[Arika]

Shutdown every night unless I'm downloading something large. Maintenance only when required

[GDRRiley]

about once a month or 2, and most of those are window update or for a while during December I was moving my PC every few days. 

[Ithanul]

I dust mine about once a month (I run them with side panels off).  That about the few times mine get powered off.

[1234vietnam]

I shut mine down every night and clean dust out every 2-3 weeks.