Sandby or hibernate?

Is it better to use hibernate or standby? I am not so much wondering what is more convient but what is more friendly to the computer because I know that hibernate uses alot less power, I'm an ECE so i know what low power can do to some systems. Thanks for your inputs.

 

I don't think either would be that bad to your computers... Standy will recover faster because everything is in RAM, while Hibernate as you said will save power (useful in battery mode), but take a bit longer to recover.

 

Neither of the methods is really more 'friendly' to your computer, except possibly in one instance. Certainly, neither should damage your hardware.

In the event that your battery and/or AC gets disconnected/removed and your computer is in standby, your computer is going to have had the equivalent of having it's power pulled out while it was on, erasing RAM contents - so you will lose any open documents or files that haven't been saved. In hibernation, the computer is already 'off' and the current contents of RAM is saved to the hard drive, so you don't lose open documents and don't have to reboot the OS even if all your power sources are disconnected.

Standby is generally faster to recover from because it maintains power to RAM - the system is still partially 'on' and doesn't need to read back memory from the hard drive. The battery drain is quite minimal unless you are considering going on standby for days at a time, so it's not such a big issue.

 

1. Are you on AC or Battery? AC=stby will recover quicker.
I am not sure why any one really uses either one.
On a NB that has speed switching, & sleep modes on its own in Windows would seem to achieve similar results.

IMO, it would depend on what you are planning on doing while it is in that state!
If you move a NB/LT in stby & drop it in its case, probably not so smart idea. I think it would be damaged more than if it were off and suffered minor jar/drop