pc power consumption on hibernate on win7

[rynio]

Hello, do you know how much power consumption is when you hibernate your pc under win7 ?
And how can i create shourtcut to hibernate on keyboard?

 

[Jonathan_King]

Hibernate uses no power, other than to keep the clock updated.
Hibernate writes everything in RAM to the disk, and then shuts down the computer. See my post here.

 

[Frostmourne]

This is a shortcut, just add a keyboard key:

How to Create a Hibernate Shortcut in Windows Vista

However, use Hybrid Sleep, hibernate is obsolete.

 

[Jonathan_King]

This is a shortcut, just add a keyboard key:

How to Create a Hibernate Shortcut in Windows Vista

However, use Hybrid Sleep, hibernate is obsolete.

I disagree. IMO, there is no need to be using power during the night, when nobody is going to use the machine for 7 hours. The money saved makes up for the extra 15 seconds lost each morning.
Just my opinion, of course. Feel free to disagree.

 

[chrysalis]

yeah I was going to say, the first thing I do is disable hybrid sleep. Booting from hibernation is incredibly fast as it is even on a laptop, so is just wasting power using hybrid sleep.