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On adapter, better to hibernate or standby throughout the night?
If I'm using an adapter to power my Vaio, what would be more reasonable to do when I'm not using my Vaio throughout the night:
1. Hibernate
2. Sleep
3. Shutdown
Keep in mind that I'm using an adapter, not the battery.
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I just hibernate each night and reboot at least once a week.
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close lid, goes into standby, open lid, press any key, up and running in 2 seconds.
coming out of hibernation takes too long to be functional again
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Does hibernating every other day or so have any effect on your computer's performance in the long run? Does it effect any hardware?
Same thing with sleep/standby. Going into sleep/standby every night, will it effect the notebook's performance in the long run?
I have a compaq desktop since 5 year ago and every night, I shut it down. Every night. Till this day, my desktop has been running just how I like it to run. I've never put that desktop into hibernate and rarely put it on standby for the night. Always shut it down.
So I'm wondering would it be best if I apply this same habit to my notebook while on an adapter.
Your inputs would be greatly appreciated. :)
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I guess now would be a good time as any to look at the power modes in Windows:
Standby/Sleep (XP/Vista) - Puts your PC and cpomponents into a very low power mode but does not save the state of your hard drive if the power goes off your you run out of juice. Not a good idea when you're on batteries. On AC power it makes more sense, although you're still not protected if say there's a power outage and your battery still dies, so there's still a small risk that you can lose your work.
For Vista, Sleep is a little different, and a little smarter. The big difference in Vista is that when the battery level gets low, Vista automatically puts your PC into Hibernate mode, thus guaranteeing you'll never lose any of your work. It works so well that in Vista, you don't even have the option to hibernate, the only option it offers (and the only one you'll need) is Sleep.
Hibernate (XP/Vista) - Saves your current work and state on hard disk and shuts down completely -- the pro is that you're completely protected from power failure as your work is saved in non-volatile memory (HDD). The con is that Hibernate eats up hard disk space and the time it takes to put a PC into Hibernate and wake from Hibernate can be lengthy (which also suggests that you're putting a potential load of HDD activity and fragmentation on your HDD).
Shutdown - self explanatory. I guess the pros would be that your work is guaranteed to be saved (provided you address your dialogue windows) and you're not using any power at all. The con would be the stress you're putting on your hardware during the startup/shutdown process (which even that is up to argument).
If given the option, the choice is easy for Vista -- just set the NB to sleep. Low power mode, no risk of losing your work, even during a power outage. For XP Standby is kind of a low-risk proposition on AC power -- you never know what happens while you're sleeping. The pros with Standby is that it would stress out your components the least out of the three options. Hibernate-- takes a long time to come in and out of hibernation, and it eats up disk space. Also, just thinking about Hibernation works, I think it would degrade the performance of your HDD by the constant read/writes of large amounts of data if you hibernate everyday, but again nothing has been proven for sure.
My choice for an XP NB would be either shut it down every night or standby. I don't think there's any definitive proof that turning off/on your components on a daily basis would stress them out to a point where the life of your NB would suffer, nor is standby that risky of a proposition if you're power is clean and you're a responsible person and you save your work on a regular basis. Standby would also stress out your NB the least.
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I hibernate mostly. If something has changed (USB device removed, slow performance, etc.) I'll hit F8 and do a startup instead.
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I Sleep all the time. It takes less than 5 seconds to run again after Sleep. I am also using the adapter and not the battery. Waiting for the system to reboot is hassle. I haven't tried hibernating so i don't know the difference.
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Another vote for hibernate, never had a problem, the start up allows me to get a cup of coffee going :D
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If it's overnight I just turn off. I wouldn't want something happen overnite such as a power failure and power surge while I'm asleep. Hope you have a surge protector.
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I just hibernate each night and reboot at least once a week.
This is about the same thing I do, works well and hibernate doesnt take much time to boot up. Plus you get the added bonus of taking the laptop off power and not having to worry about killing your battery while you have it in your bag.