Do I have to turn off computer over night ?
I have a Dell lap top and have been turning it off every night. Is this necessary. It takes a long time to boot up in the morning. I have win 8.1
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AllegroD wrote:
You bring up a point here that needs elaboration. It might be that I am in newer computers, Almost all MS OS based computers sold these days start with the "Advanced Power Settings", set for the hard drive(s) to stopping after about 3 minutes on battery or 15 minutes plugged in, of non acvtivity. I am sorry if yours or others are not. This is something you should set, if they are not. My apologies for those on older OS that this may not have been the settings on.
My PCs and macs have SSDs (solid state hard drives) so there is nothing to "stop." SSDs don't spin.
However, on Windows the default is 20 minutes of no activity. Many people won't see that since Windows is often doing "something" (indexing, etc.) when the PC is on so it is often a moot point. The HDs will stop during when the PC itself is suspended, either forced or via a period of inactivity.
Where it is apparent is on external drives or on physically separate secondary (non boot) drives. These are not always accessed just because the pc is on. I do let them sleep, since they are spinners, except for my mac mini that acts as a media server (runs 24/7). The spin-up delay is unacceptable for that kind of usage.
Michael
