My brother says he always puts his computer on Hibernate because it's much faster to boot up. However, I would like to know if this will cause any long term damage to my computer? If not, I may start Hibernating to shave off like 45 seconds in booting up. If so, I'll stick to Shutting Down.
No damage. Microsoft and computer makers (Asus, Gigabyte etc..) would never allow that to happen.
The only negative effect that I'm aware of to hibernating is that it places more locked clusters on the partition, thus using more space and increasing fragmentation.
Use hybrid sleep. Hibernate is obsolete. Enable it in advanced power options.
Get an SSD drive and then you can boot as fast as you can come out of hibernate. At least that is the way it is for me.
Standard "sleep" simply keeps the memory powered, so that you can resume instantly. It also means that if your machine were to lose power while "sleeping" (i.e. no different than losing power any other time your machine is running).
Hybrid sleep performs one additional step before going into "sleep" mode and that is to write the contents of memory to disk. Thus, it takes slightly longer to go into sleep mode but is the same as normal sleep to resume. Main benefit is that if you lose power while sleeping, you will still be able to resume your desktop session as if nothing happened.
Sleep = Quick shutdown/resume, potential for data loss (anything that was not saved to disk before sleeping) in the event of a power issue.
Hybrid sleep = Slower shutdown, quick resume. Protection against power events.
Hybrid Sleep looks very similar to Hibernate. What's the difference between those two?
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