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컴퓨터 언제나 키고 다니시나요?
Jea
2004. 4. 30. 13:14
흠 전 회사컴퓨터는 그냥 키고 다니고, 기숙사 살때도 그냥
키고 다녔는데, 뭐 이유는 전기세 걱정할 필요없고, 고정 IP인
만큼 필요한 정보를 방이나 사무실에 가지 않고 얻을수 있다는
장점이 있어서지요. 하지만 집에 있는 컴퓨터는 전기세도 있고,
소음도 좀 있고, 고정 아이피도 아니여서 그냥 끄고 다니고 있죠.
근데 cnet에 흥미로운 글이 올라와 있어서 올려봅니다. 미국
전기세를 기준으로 컴퓨터를 끄지 않을경우 발생하는 전기세가
1년에 대략 $120 정도이고, 부팅하는데 걸리는 시간이 대략 48초
라고 할때 1년에 절약할수 있는 시간은 4.9시간. 그 정도면 키고
다녀도 괜찮을 수준인것 같군요. 물론 그 4.9시간을 유용하게
쓴다는 전제하에 말이죠. 아래 원문을 첨부합니다.
Off or on? Where else but CNET would a discussion of whether you should turn your PC off at night become the hottest thread in the history of our user forums?
My position in the debate: I say, forget the thing even has a power switch. Leave it on. That way your machine is instantly available, just like every other tech product you own. It also lets backup programs, antivirus apps, and spyware cleaners do their thing thoroughly every night without slowing you down--or vice versa. That's how the pros run machines after all.
The cost? The average PC draws something like 60 watts in normal operation. At the average national rate of 10 cents per kilowatt-hour, that's $6 a month running all the time. Add in a monitor, and you might round up to $10, much less for an LCD. So we're talking maybe $120 per year.
What about wear and tear? The only part of a PC you really worry about breaking is the hard drive. My Seagate Barracuda is a 600,000-hour part (as measured by its mean-time-between-failures rating). That's about 69 years, always on. I've also noticed that PCs are like jetliners--they almost never crap out when cruising, but you have to watch those takeoffs and landings. Cycling the power on a PC is when you should tighten your seat belt.
But if the benefits of instant-on and background housekeeping don't turn you on, here's a more human-based reason to never shut down your machine: It takes my computer 48 seconds to boot. During that time, if you're like me, you sit there, pretty much staring at the BIOS and Windows screens. Maybe you're even mouth-breathing. Done just once a day, that's 4.9 hours of looking stupid, every year. I'll gladly play $120 to take that off my resume.
By Brian Cooley
Editor at large
April 23, 2004
CNET
키고 다녔는데, 뭐 이유는 전기세 걱정할 필요없고, 고정 IP인
만큼 필요한 정보를 방이나 사무실에 가지 않고 얻을수 있다는
장점이 있어서지요. 하지만 집에 있는 컴퓨터는 전기세도 있고,
소음도 좀 있고, 고정 아이피도 아니여서 그냥 끄고 다니고 있죠.
근데 cnet에 흥미로운 글이 올라와 있어서 올려봅니다. 미국
전기세를 기준으로 컴퓨터를 끄지 않을경우 발생하는 전기세가
1년에 대략 $120 정도이고, 부팅하는데 걸리는 시간이 대략 48초
라고 할때 1년에 절약할수 있는 시간은 4.9시간. 그 정도면 키고
다녀도 괜찮을 수준인것 같군요. 물론 그 4.9시간을 유용하게
쓴다는 전제하에 말이죠. 아래 원문을 첨부합니다.
Off or on? Where else but CNET would a discussion of whether you should turn your PC off at night become the hottest thread in the history of our user forums?
My position in the debate: I say, forget the thing even has a power switch. Leave it on. That way your machine is instantly available, just like every other tech product you own. It also lets backup programs, antivirus apps, and spyware cleaners do their thing thoroughly every night without slowing you down--or vice versa. That's how the pros run machines after all.
The cost? The average PC draws something like 60 watts in normal operation. At the average national rate of 10 cents per kilowatt-hour, that's $6 a month running all the time. Add in a monitor, and you might round up to $10, much less for an LCD. So we're talking maybe $120 per year.
What about wear and tear? The only part of a PC you really worry about breaking is the hard drive. My Seagate Barracuda is a 600,000-hour part (as measured by its mean-time-between-failures rating). That's about 69 years, always on. I've also noticed that PCs are like jetliners--they almost never crap out when cruising, but you have to watch those takeoffs and landings. Cycling the power on a PC is when you should tighten your seat belt.
But if the benefits of instant-on and background housekeeping don't turn you on, here's a more human-based reason to never shut down your machine: It takes my computer 48 seconds to boot. During that time, if you're like me, you sit there, pretty much staring at the BIOS and Windows screens. Maybe you're even mouth-breathing. Done just once a day, that's 4.9 hours of looking stupid, every year. I'll gladly play $120 to take that off my resume.
By Brian Cooley
Editor at large
April 23, 2004
CNET