From: "Robert Comer" 

>   I remember 2 times that I've experienced 'cold equipment failure', and
> about 3 or 4 where there was a 'warm failure' - rebooting something after
> it had been powered on for a while and it fails then.

Most of the failures I've had to deal with were cold starts and there's
been quite a few. (especially hard drive failures)

>    I'm of the opinion that by having the equipment off, you'll have less
> exposure to lightning and a power company transformer failure causing
> overvoltage.

I've never had a lightning related failure -- I've been lucky.

>It all depends on how exposed you are to lightning and how
> resistant your setup is to common mode voltages (your UPS protects the
> power, but is there a cable / Lan / Telephone/TV connected to another
> port?)

I actually don't run UPS's either, but I do buy pretty good power strips.
(with phone line protection)  And yes, I could get hit be a lighting strike
and have failures because of it, everyone can, no matter the level of
protection for a home residence.) but the chances are vanishingly small,
even in  a "high risk" area.  (I lived in Wyoming after all.
)  The difference between a failure of an on over an off device is
a couple orders of magnitude even less I would think.

--
Bob Comer


"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:32:11 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
>>> I don't believe that stuff about continuous running = reliable for
>>> modern
>>> components. Do you have any reason to believe this?
>>
>>Just personal experience.
>
>   I remember 2 times that I've experienced 'cold equipment failure', and
> about 3 or 4 where there was a 'warm failure' - rebooting something after
> it had been powered on for a while and it fails then.
>
>    I'm of the opinion that by having the equipment off, you'll have less
> exposure to lightning and a power company transformer failure causing
> overvoltage.   It all depends on how exposed you are to lightning and how
> resistant your setup is to common mode voltages (your UPS protects the
> power, but is there a cable / Lan / Telephone/TV connected to another
> port?)

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