Hibernate, sleep or shut down? Page 2

Started by Ho-Oh July 1st, 2011 3:29 AM
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Cherrim

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I used to use hibernate for all my computers but I've sort of grown out of that habit now.

With my desktop, I either leave it on all the time or shut it down every night. :/ I remember hibernating it soon after I got it and it kept whirring which kept me awake and I haven't really tried it since.

On my netbook, I have the power button set to standby, so that it sleeps quickly and turns on right away when I want to use it again.


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My Netbook is either shutdown or sleep mode depending on how soon I'm going to be using it next. My laptop, which I use as a desktop almost never gets shut off. Both computers are set to hibernate if battery reaches critical level so I can continue what I was doing before the battery ran out. My file/print server is also never shut off.
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My desktop just gets turned off. Overclocking and sleeping don't always give the best results :D

My Macbook just sleeps, however.
I literally wanted to say the exact same thing, or something similar at least.

So, yeah. I pretty much shut down my desktop and 'sleep' my Macbook.

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My desktop generally gets put into hibernate when I'm not using it, unless it's a long period in which it's a shut down and unplug. The laptop gets put into hibernate, but not all the time. I don't enjoy, nor will I ever use, sleep again. And if you use it for your laptop, I highly recommend not doing that. Hibernate is the better choice for laptops if you plan on using it again, soon. Sleep still leaves the hard drive spinning. This means that if your system is still running and you drop it, you might as well kiss your data goodbye.


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My desktop generally gets put into hibernate when I'm not using it, unless it's a long period in which it's a shut down and unplug. The laptop gets put into hibernate, but not all the time. I don't enjoy, nor will I ever use, sleep again. And if you use it for your laptop, I highly recommend not doing that. Hibernate is the better choice for laptops if you plan on using it again, soon. Sleep still leaves the hard drive spinning. This means that if your system is still running and you drop it, you might as well kiss your data goodbye.
Not true, actually. Sleep state on modern OSes (like Vista and 7) saves the system state to the RAM and copies that to the hard drive as well, cutting power to the hard drive as soon as it's done copying the RAM onto the hard drive, to prevent the loss of data from power loss. Older sleep states just save the system state to the RAM and skip copying it to the hard drive.

Hibernate, meanwhile, actually cuts power to the RAM after saving the state to the hard drive, so it takes longer to restore from Hibernate mode as opposed to Sleep mode because it absolutely must load the state from the hard drive, while Sleep mode only has to to that when it loses power.

Just so you're aware: RAM does not have any moving parts at all. It works very similarly to flash memory.
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Desktop: I shut it down. If I'm going for a short time I'll only turn the monitor off (leaving the actual computer running normally).


Sleep state on modern OSes (like Vista and 7) saves the system state to the RAM and copies that to the hard drive as well, cutting power to the hard drive as soon as it's done copying the RAM onto the hard drive, to prevent the loss of data from power loss. Older sleep states just save the system state to the RAM and skip copying it to the hard drive.
Tell me if you can, do any of Windows 95, 98 or 98SE do that?

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Tell me if you can, do any of Windows 95, 98 or 98SE do that?
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that feature was absent from XP, as well. It seems to be a development that has occurred since 2005.
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I always put it on sleep mode. Hibernation is just the same as shutting down except that hibernation saves your stuff. I find sleep mode easier to manage because whenever I open my laptop lid, I just enter my password and boom. I'm on. xD

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I rarely shut down.... Maybe each 3 days? (Desktop)

Both my laptops get shut down, why? I have no surface where they can be safe.... Anyways, the fan being on cooling down the CPU while the lappy is on hibernate just gathers more dust, which just means I'd have to open it sooner to clean it up....
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Back when I had a desktop, I left it on all the time other than rebooting when a new installation occurred, updates, whathaveyou. I also rebooted once every month if i didn't do so already or if I needed to Defrag or do a virus scan because I would boot into Safe Mode. With my netbook, it will stay on all night because I torrent on a schedule but during school I put it in sleep so I can get it started quickly in my Microsoft Engineering Class.

I don't think so. I'm pretty sure that feature was absent from XP, as well. It seems to be a development that has occurred since 2005.
well i remembe i usede to use sleep in XP. i think it was in SP3 only which a lot of people didn't get if they turned off automatic updates

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well i remembe i usede to use sleep in XP. i think it was in SP3 only which a lot of people didn't get if they turned off automatic updates
I know that XP has a sleep mode. What I was talking about was that it doesn't save your session to the hard drive, and it only writes it to the RAM, which means that if the computer loses power, your session will be lost. Vista and 7 solve this problem by saving your session to the hard drive as well as keeping it loaded into the RAM when you tell your computer to sleep.
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Morkula

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I put my laptop into Hibernate, since it has a tendency to wake up from Sleep mode on its own sometimes. Coming out of Hibernate takes a lot less time than booting up, and if I'm in the middle of something I can just leave it open and it'll be there waiting for me when I bring my laptop out of hibernation.

Legendary Silke

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I always fully shut down when I get the chance to do so. When I'm out and about with my laptop, however, hybrid sleep is the best.

(What's hybrid sleep? That's what happens when you combine sleep and hibernate. It does what sleep does... keeping stuff in memory in a low-power state... while storing everything to the hard disk at the same time. That way, it's both fast and safe!)

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My battery basically feeds off of my charger now, so I always have to have my laptop plugged in if I'm going to use it. Because of that, normally what I do is when I know I'm not going to be using my computer for awhile or I'm going to bed, then I'll shut it down. If I'm just taking my laptop downstairs or I'm going to use it after a moderate time being away, then I'll put it in hibernate so I get a quick start up.

I hardly ever put my laptop in Sleep mode manually. If it goes to sleep mode, then it'll do it on its own if I left it on for too long.