On earlier computers, I had several ICs walk themselves out of sockets due to repeated thermal expansion cycles. Keeping the computer turned on eliminates most of that.
Mechanical wear was another problem. Booting a computer was extremely taxing on old HDDs and floppy drives.
Most power supplies are really well designed now but they had a tendency to spike power briefly in the last when turned on. This was especially bad for older capacitors but also not healthy for the ICs.
Now that boot times are reasonably fast and most everything is solid state and power managed really well, turning a off computer is fine.
However, I just assume most electronics now just go into some type of deep sleep mode unless fully disconnected from any power source. That likely isn’t true in many cases, but I consider it healthy level of paranoia.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Mixed theories on that, and most are older.
On earlier computers, I had several ICs walk themselves out of sockets due to repeated thermal expansion cycles. Keeping the computer turned on eliminates most of that.
Mechanical wear was another problem. Booting a computer was extremely taxing on old HDDs and floppy drives.
Most power supplies are really well designed now but they had a tendency to spike power briefly in the last when turned on. This was especially bad for older capacitors but also not healthy for the ICs.
Now that boot times are reasonably fast and most everything is solid state and power managed really well, turning a off computer is fine.
However, I just assume most electronics now just go into some type of deep sleep mode unless fully disconnected from any power source. That likely isn’t true in many cases, but I consider it healthy level of paranoia.