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    Hibernate or sleep?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by johnyguy1, May 2, 2010.

  1. johnyguy1

    johnyguy1 Notebook Enthusiast

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    i have a studio 15 just wondering what you guys prefer hibernate or sleep mode?

    i find hibernate a cool future and useing it alot..
     
    johnyguy1, May 2, 2010
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  2. capeta

    capeta Notebook Enthusiast

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    hibernate doesn't drain the battery.
    sleep mode does.

    so obviously hibernate FTW!!
     
    capeta, May 3, 2010
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  3. DR650SE

    DR650SE The Whiskey Barracuda

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    Hiberbnate takes everything in the memory and writes it to the HDD. Then when it starts it loads everything back into memory. So Hibernate actually turns off the computer, where sleep keeps the computer on in a low power state to retain everything in the memory.

    Thats why people disable hibernate on the SSD drives. The additional writing to the SSD can cause SSD degradation. Also with an SSD it can boot from scratch quicker then loading from hibernate. Supposedly anyway. An SSD Boots fast enough no need for hibernate.
     
    DR650SE, May 3, 2010
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  4. MoInSTL

    MoInSTL Notebook Consultant

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    Hibernate sucks up about a gig of memory.
     
    MoInSTL, May 3, 2010
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