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Re: Laptop as a server.
People who are saying "You can't run a laptop 24/7 its not designed for it" or "laptop as a server, it will die", have you ever actually tried it? Of course laptops aren't designed for it, but then no PC is either, but my point is if a laptop was going to overheat its not going to suddenly do it when its been on for 24 hours, its going to do it after being on just 10 or 20 minutes, if that. Think about what you're saying before you say it!
I have a friend who is running an old pentium II laptop (600Mhz) and has for over 2 1/2 years now and the worst he's had is a hard drive failure.
I run my laptop for 16 hours every day then its put into standby, and its often left on my bed with poor air circulation. Its never overheated yet.
When I visit my friend in Liverpool I leave my laptop on 24/7 at his house. Again often left on a bed or something with poor air circulation. No overheating yet.
If I'm downloading I leave my laptop on 24/7 at home, sometimes for days.
Laptops as a server are perfectly fine if you give them plenty of air circulation. I'd much rather use a laptop as a server because of the reduced power consumption, but unfortunately I need more than a few hundred GB of space (more like 3.8TB...).
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