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Southeast South Dakota | 1. Newer computers are better - they sleep better, wake up faster and more reliably, they have been improving that feature. And the newer ones sleep and wakeup even faster.
2. As far as your question, besides the energy use, a mechanical hard drive (a non SSD drive) has a spinning platter and moving parts - they definitely have a time span in hours, and will fail sooner if you never turn it off. But, an idle computer may power down the hard drive and sill not goto sleep - so that situation would go away.
With todays SSD drives and fast wakeups, it is unnecessary to have to set them to NEVER
BUT, I have computers that I like to log into and use remotely - so if they aren't powered up it is a no go. | |
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Does NEVER sleep setting shorten computer life?
