First and foremost, benefits result from energy - and therefore cost savings. According to several researches, during nights or weekends an average of 20 % of all computers are not shut down at all. Lunch breaks or long absences from the desk not even mentioning.

Furthermore many computes are idle - often during the whole night - to process certain, long operations that would occupy the machine during the day. The major disadvantage -even after finalizing all operations, the computer needs energy during being idle until the user returns the next morning, after the weekend …

This today’s typical behavior does not only waste a huge amount of energy but also shortens the machine’s life cycle. Compared to lder computer generations today’s machines are designed to be switched on and off several times per day.
Especially desktop hard drives are not designed for continuous operations and therefore through switching off the computer they are better protected than overused.

Apart from wasting energy, security also poses a huge problem. Computers that run for nights can be attacked more easily than those being switched off. There are many arguments and benefits - both money and security wise - that argue to a
minimization of uncontrolled running times of systems.