[ltp] Suspend and resume at a particular time?

[Ben Pearre]

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Rather than giving a useful answer, I'll just ask a question I was
wondering about:

The old wisdom is that it is better to leave a computer on all the
time than to turn it on and off every day.  That applied to desktops,
and I gather it had much to do with the hard disk spinning up and
down.

Laptop hard disks are presumably more robust and get less upset about
constant spin-up spin-down, I guess, and if you're returning from work
and don't plan to use it 'til the morning, then the number of powerons
is fixed anyway...  but how do things balance out?  When is it better
to turn the computer on (or wake it up) every day?

* Hard disk may be better-designed for this?

* Suspend/resume rather than reboot: good (eg. less activity at
  wakeup)?  Bad (filesystem mount check doesn't run as often)?  Etc?

* Even on AC, laptops surely have much lower power requirements than
  desktops.  Cheaper to operate?  Esp. if you enable laptop-mode,
  although lots of GnoDE apps tend to randomly request for the hard
  disk to spin up every couple of minutes.

* Battery: good to store LiIon batteries in a cool place, which a
  running laptop isn't.  Just take it out?  Etc...?

Cheers!
-Ben

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