Tsurasa said:

Also, for your collections, do you use the machines?  I always have wondered if I should leave it running, run it when i use it, turn it off when not, or just leave it off..  I clean it regularly, get out the dust and test the fans..  Just wondering what you folks think about leaving it running, as that's what I usually do.  I do turn it off, at times when I'm going to not use it for a while, but some nights I leave it running.

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I have a Power Mac 9600 which has been a full time NetBSD server since around 2002. It's been off for, I'd guess, less than two days in total in all that time - the longest time it was off was when I brought it from my colo provider in New York to downtown Los Angeles. It's ridiculously stable hardware, and even with the 1 GHz Sonnet, 1.5 gigs of memory, UW-SCSI card, 50 pin SCSI drive and hardware mirrored 2 TB UW-SCSI drives, it takes less than 100 watts total. I'm sure any decision you make about leaving on, sleeping or turning off will be fine.