Sleep or Hibernate?

[Guest]

Which is preferable, Sleep or Hibernate? I currently shut down my laptop when
its not is use. It appears that Sleep or Hibernate may be preferable to
Shutdown. Which is best, Sleep or Hibernate?

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

It appears that Sleep or Hibernate may be preferable to Shutdown.

Why?

 

[Guest]

Less wear on the hardware than powering up each morning and loading all the
needed programs into memory only to dump the memory at the end of the day,
shut down and start all over the next day. Sleep and/or Hibernate semi-shuts
down turning off the monitor and hard drive but retains the memory. Sleep is
recommended for Vista OS and I wonder if it is for XP

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

Sleep is recommended for Vista OS and I wonder if it is for XP

Maybe for a laptop, but I've always left my desktops up and running
24x7x365 without a problem and without ever having had a hard drive
failure.

For that matter, the only failures I've had in17 years of doing that
have been the loss of a couple of power supplies... and those have
been explained by local power outages followed by a surge when the
power was restored.

 

[db]

hibernate
since it stores/saves the ram data on disk
and not affected by a loss of power.



Which is preferable, Sleep or Hibernate? I currently shut down my laptop when
its not is use. It appears that Sleep or Hibernate may be preferable to
Shutdown. Which is best, Sleep or Hibernate?

 

[Alan]

You obviously take energy saving and conservation very seriously then.
You must be a very rude and ignorant member of Friends Of The Earth.
Is your four by four as offensive as you?

 

[Bob I]

Whatever works best for your particular situation. THAT'S why there are
options.

 

[Malvern]

Is Sleep the same as Standby ? (I'm running a desktop unit here.) If so,
go with Hibernate. It turns your computer off . (At lest I think so as the
power light goes off.) doing this averts a power outage snooking
everything; it might in Standby or Sleep.

Malv

 

[Tim Slattery]

Is Sleep the same as Standby ? (I'm running a desktop unit here.) If so,
go with Hibernate. It turns your computer off . (At lest I think so as the
power light goes off.)

Correct, "Hibernate" writes the current contents of RAM to a disk
file, and shuts the computer off. When you boot, the OS looks for a
hibernate file. If it finds one, it reads it and recovers the previous
session from that. If no hibernate file exists, a normal bootup
occurs.

"Sleep" mode powers down the disks, the monitor, whatever else power
can be removed from. The machine is not actually powered down, and
data continues to be stored in RAM, so it can be restarted more
quickly then if it had hibernated. But it uses more power in this mode
than if it hibernated.

I think that "Standby" and "sleep" are two words for the same thing in
Windows XP. The "Power options property" dialog allows you to
configure parameters for standby and hibernation.