Red Squirrel
No Lifer
I keep my computers on 24/7, especially my server equipment. I find when you have electronics that are generally always on, it's best to just keep it that way.
We had a 4 hour long power outage last summer. When I powered my main server back on after the outage I lost 2 drives. At the end of all that fiasco I ended up replacing the raid controller, all the drives (did not trust em) and the two backplanes. There is still something not right with that server as it occasionally crashes in a really weird way. I've seen it a lot in the business world too, where you have a piece of equipment running 24/7, it gets turned off for an extended period, and never comes back. I find this situation is YMMV. Maybe it's only like 5% of the time that you'll actually have an issue, but I find if it's kept running 24/7 and the temperature is stable, it's the most reliable scenario. Also people always think the server room has to be like a freezer. You can get away with like 20-25C, just keep it stable. Cold is actually a much worse enemy than heat depending on the equipment.
We had a 4 hour long power outage last summer. When I powered my main server back on after the outage I lost 2 drives. At the end of all that fiasco I ended up replacing the raid controller, all the drives (did not trust em) and the two backplanes. There is still something not right with that server as it occasionally crashes in a really weird way. I've seen it a lot in the business world too, where you have a piece of equipment running 24/7, it gets turned off for an extended period, and never comes back. I find this situation is YMMV. Maybe it's only like 5% of the time that you'll actually have an issue, but I find if it's kept running 24/7 and the temperature is stable, it's the most reliable scenario. Also people always think the server room has to be like a freezer. You can get away with like 20-25C, just keep it stable. Cold is actually a much worse enemy than heat depending on the equipment.