Shut Down or Hibernate?

[Klaw117]

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.

 

[torrentg]

No damage. Microsoft and computer makers (Asus, Gigabyte etc..) would never allow that to happen.

 

[seekermeister]

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.

 

[Uber Philf]

Nope, does no damage at all.

 

[Frostmourne]

Use hybrid sleep. Hibernate is obsolete. Enable it in advanced power options.

 

[pparks1]

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.

 

[Klaw117]

Use hybrid sleep. Hibernate is obsolete. Enable it in advanced power options.

I turned that off to enable Hibernation. What's the difference between Sleep, Hybrid Sleep, and Hibernation?

By the way, thanks for the replies everyone.

 

[DDensity]

What's the difference between Sleep, Hybrid Sleep, and Hibernation?

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.

 

[Klaw117]

Hybrid Sleep looks very similar to Hibernate. What's the difference between those two?

 

[Jonathan_King]

Hybrid Sleep looks very similar to Hibernate. What's the difference between those two?

Hybrid sleeps keeps the data in RAM too, for quick resume.

 

[Klaw117]

I just Googled it. Hybrid sleep still uses power while Hibernation shuts down your computer. Because of that, I think I'll stick to Hibernation.

Thanks guys.

 

[smarteyeball]

Hibernate actually turns everything off. Sleep does not.

Personally I shut down my machine because I had dramas in the past with certain devices not resuming properly. I haven't looked into it since because waiting a whole minute from cold boot doesn't bother me.

However on my sisters laptop, which is slow as molasses, hibernate is a great time saver.

 

[Jonathan_King]

I hibernate my machine overnight and when I know I will not be using it for several hours. Might as well save on the power bill.