Hibernate Speed on Vaio Z (non-SSD) with Vista

I am experiencing in excess of 30+ seconds for the computer to go into hibernate. The screen immediately turns off when I click on hibernate, but it takes quite a while for it to go into hibernation. Am I alone in this, or is this normal?

 

Same here. It takes a while to write your 3GB or 4GB worth of zeroes and ones in your memory to your harddrive. I would like it to be faster, but I don't think there is a way around it -- other than installing Windows XP and just put 1GB or 2GB RAM in it.

 

It's quite normal.

A lot of processes + 4GB RAM + a slow Toshiba harddrive and you end up with hibernation times of > 30 seconds.

What helps?
-XP (like Skyshade said)
-downgrading to 2GB
-Clean install Vista. The less processes the faster hibernation is.
-Upgrading harddrive.

 

It will be much faster if you use XP, even with the same amount of ram.

Under XP, the ram data starts to transfer to hard drive right away when you start hibernate. The hard drive keeps on writing.

Under Vista, the ram data still starts to transfer to hard drive when you press hibernate. But in the mean time of the whole process, the hard drive stops writing in full speed for a couple second. (You'll know what I mean when you look at your laptop's hard drive light.)
To improve Vista hibernate time, disable superfetch and readyboots will help a little bit.

PS. I disable those two thing on my TZ (with a slow hard drive), the machine perform better. Those 2 functions don't do well with a slow hard drive.
I would leave those on on a desktop, not on a laptop.

 

The extra-slow hibernate time was one of the main reasons I upgraded from Vista to XP.

 

A clean install of Vista doesnt help. I still get times of over a minute, and this is with the essential applications installed. Hibernate seems to hang once every 5 hibernates or so, so I find it very risky! I have given Vista an opportunity to shine for over a month now, and all I can say is... XP, here I come!

 

It can help, but only if you have significantly reduce the amount of active procceses.

In my experience a system with 50 processes will hibernate quicker than one with 70 processes.

 

Doesnt matter if its 50 or 70 since the time it takes to hibernate is so long in the first place.

 

My point was it makes a small difference. But yeah XP will do it much faster.

Here's some info on fast hibernation times in Windows Vista:
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/storage/intel-x25-m.aspx?page=5

 

Hihi.That's not an upgrade.That's a down grade.

 

I know... theoretically it's a downgrade.

But if you consider that I went from an unbearably slow user experience to a faster OS which better meets my needs, then really it's an upgrade. I just hope Windows 7 lives up to the hype.

 

I am hoping they will come out with SP2 for Vista soon, that fixes many of the problems still present in SP1, getting it to behave closer to Windows 7 (if what they say about 7 being just a cosmetic makeover is true).

Could use SP2 inside few months.