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    How does Hibernate compare to shutting down for HDD life ?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by wearetheborg, Oct 22, 2006.

  1. wearetheborg

    wearetheborg Notebook Virtuoso

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    On a scale of 1-10, let 10 be score for the shutdown/startup sequence affecting HDD life.
    On this scale, how does Hibernate (to HDD) and wake up do on HDD life ?
    My notebook takes about 20 seconds to hbernate and 50 sec to wake up.
     
    wearetheborg, Oct 22, 2006
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    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I was mistaken.
     
    usapatriot, Oct 22, 2006
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    samuderaindia Notebook Consultant

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    I tought Standby is the which use RAM, hibernate will copy your current configuration of RAM and save it to HDD.
    :confused:
     
    samuderaindia, Oct 22, 2006
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    Probably no difference at all, assuming that your hard drive were to spin-up/down the same number of times for either hibernate or startup/shutdown.
     
    timberwolf, Oct 22, 2006
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    Standby uses ram. Hibernate saves to the hdd. Should not affect the life of your drive.
     
    lku, Oct 22, 2006
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    I start Windows about once per week (except when software demands reboots). The rest of the time I use hibernation which saves all my work where I left off, so it is much more convenient.

    A hibernating computer is powered down as if it was off and I think there will be less hard disk usage in writing / reading the hibernation file than shutting down all applications and Windows and then restarting them. It is certainly much faster.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Oct 22, 2006
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    From my understanding you are correct. When you shut off windows you have to first save settings and close all apps and then when you turn it back on load everything.

    But hibernating just copies everything to the HD and then copys everything back when you tell it too.
     
    mikkroik, Oct 22, 2006
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    Both switches off the HDD, which means no difference.
     
    Jalf, Oct 22, 2006
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    Where did you hear that? I think you are mistaken, as has been pointed out.

    To answer the original post, both hibernation and shut-down use the HDD about equally.
     
    RogueMonk, Oct 22, 2006
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    I really can't see the point of this thread. I don't know how these things can be scaled... Strange discussion..

    Anyway, no difference.
     
    Dreamer, Oct 22, 2006
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