Another "shutdowner" checking in. (Except if I need to do something time-consuming like imaging an entire drive or rendering a really long video, in which case it gets left on after I go to sleep and may finish what it's doing long before I wake up.)

I shutdown and unplug, I live in south-florida and do not need the heat taxing my AC or the connection to the wall during lightning season.
 
BTW...not too long ago there was a flash - bang lightning right over our house and I saw spark between two pieces of metal in my studio....thankfully everything was fine.
 
Thanks 
JR

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I shutdown and unplug, I live in south-florida and do not need the heat taxing my AC or the connection to the wall during lightning season.
 
BTW...not too long ago there was a flash - bang lightning right over our house and I saw spark between two pieces of metal in my studio....thankfully everything was fine.

Heh. Yeah there's that too. Here in Germany the power is pretty solid - the power lines are all underground, I've had huge storms roll through with nary a blip - but back in Canada once a long time ago we set up to record for a week in an old country house with funky wiring. My friend proudly set up his brand new rig (a pair of linked ADATs, mixer and outboard - this was somewhat before the days when computer-based recording was commonplace) and on the first day we laid down some tracks and were relaxing with dinner and some wine when a serious summer storm came down the pipeline. I encouraged my friend to unplug everything and he said, no man, it's all on power bars with surge circuits and so on, but I said you know, that's a big storm and a lightning spike is not a surge, I really think you'd be better off physically disconnecting from the wall. So he did and literally within 3 minutes we had the closest strike I've ever experienced or hopefully ever will, a shattering, staggering crack so close the air felt buzzy and weird. Half of the electrics in the house were fried - fax machine, microwave, lights - and my friend pretty much wouldn't stop hugging me. Would have been an anticlimactic week if the gear had all gone south on the first night. Instead we did this (hardly anyone's ever heard these tracks!): https://soundcloud.com/ed-roman/sets/the-way-jimi-did-it

I always shut down my desktop computer after I am done using it, however, not after each session.
 
I may have a session an hour later or several hours later, so there is no need to turn it off.  No mater how often I am recording or not recording, at the end of the day if at 9 pm or 2 am, I will always turn off everything especially the desktop computer. 

Always on 24/7 connected to the interwebs.
 
I maybe have one freeze a year, Since it's my time (no clients, not a studio for hire) I don't get too weird or worried about it. I believe there are ghosts in the machine, but they are "Casper" like ghosts.

I put it to sleep. That way, my projects, which are for orchestra and can take a long time to load, load much more quickly. 

I always shut down after my session.

My laptop is on 24/7, as is my desktop. 

I shutdown the desktop mother ship, but sleep my laptop via the lid. Never with SONAR up though.

This is the 2nd time I've tried to respond to this. It seems nearly half of either an original thread or response doesn't get posted.

Anyways, I appreciate everyone's input on this. Very enlightening. Looks like it could be a draw.
I do feel imo now, that's it might be best to shut down.

If for only one reason, the cost of electricity, period. Beyond that, yes, wear on the hd, and any chance of it freezing up on me.

Thanks guys, for your opinions
Joni