sleep or shut down

Computer -- On or Off?

In the evening, should you turn your computer off or leave it on? That question has been posed many times in the past, and here is yet another article on the subject. The author is Tom Nelson, and I have a lot of respect for his opinion on questions relating to computers.

When my computers had spinning hard drives, I turned them off in the evening when I was done computing for the day. My reasoning was that I didn't think it was good for a hard drive to sit there spinning 24/7.  Give it a rest, was my thought so as not to wear the bearings out. Now that all my computers have an SSD, I don't think it matters much, and it's the same conclusion Tom draws in his article.

Jim Hamm