[mythtv-users] Wakeup Timer

[Nick]

On 8/30/05, Jens Baumeister <jens.baumeister at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/29/05, Michael Vistein <michael at vistein.de> wrote:
> 
> > I sucessfully set up my MythTV box with nvram-wakeup.
> 
> One thing I've been wondering about:Will too many sleep-wakeup-cycles
> shorten your hardware's lifetime. E.g if I had a job to record the
> news every hour, would the constant power-off / power-on cause the
> hardware to faill sooner than simply letting it run 24/7?
> 
> I know power-on time used to be the most dangerous thing quite a few
> years ago because of voltage spikes, but I'm not sure what it's like
> with modern hardware.

I'd venture that it's still the case to some extent - with the extra
power required at startup and wear on motors etc, excessive startups
may likley over time contribute to a reduced system life and MTBF. If
my box is recording only a movie or documentary in the evening, I'll
just let it wake up, record, then turn off again. If it's recording
several things during the day, I'll keep it on (I'll probably fire up
the frontend and start watching anyway.) If you're remote booting and
reading/writing to a separate file server, I wouldn't be as worried as
if you'd got a few hard drives in the system.

Nick