nr said:
I'm wondering if there is any benefit to not turning the power strip
off after my PC has shut down.
Maybe, maybe not; there are a lot of opinions both ways. About the only
tangible aspect is you'll save some electricity.
I use the strip to turn the monitor
on/off. Does the PC maintain any information if the power connection
is maintained?
No. Once the computer has shut down there is no difference in whether the
power to it is on or off. Computers don't actually turn OFF most of the
time these days. They maintain a minimal functionality so that they can be
started by LAN activity, etc.; just a few of the more mundane things,
nothing of any consequence unless you want the modem to start the computer
to answer an incoming phone call, things like that.
But, computer power off is the same as power strip off with the
exceptions mentioned above. Not all systems have the same capabilities.
After getting my new monitor I kept the strip on and I
think the PC booted faster (not sure, though).
It probably did seem that way. Since the monitor still had power to it, the
filaments in the crt were kept "warm" and the display came on a little
sooner. The computer itself though won't be any different.
Just curious to see what other folks think.
What I do:
I have imaging software scheduled to run every night. On days I've done a
lot of work on the machine, I leave it on overnight. If not much happened
that day and I'm not concerned about the incremental backups, I go ahead and
shut it down, including the power bar. If I happen to be in the middle of
something and backing it up isn't important, then I use the Hibernate
feature so I get started faster when I come back to it.
HTH
Pop`