different between sleep and hibernate

Dear all,
which is better sleep or hibernate .. I have my hp laptop and I always turn
the led down so its going sleep. I do that all the time .

what is better thing, sleep or hibernate

"jalal" <> wrote in message
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> Dear all,
> which is better sleep or hibernate .. I have my hp laptop and I always
> turn the led down so its going sleep. I do that all the time .
>
> what is better thing, sleep or hibernate



Hibernate is 99.9% off, so it saves electricity / power. Sleep uses more
power, but is quicker to resume with.

The choice is yours.

--
Jon

Hi jalal,

Heat is the number one enemy of laptops. All the time that a laptop is
powered up, whether fully or just sufficiently to keep the RAM contents
whilst it is sleeping, it is creating heat. As well as that, it is also
consuming power, thus shortening the operational useage that you get from
your battery. My advice to you would be to use a combination of sleep and
hibernate. Use sleep for short periods during the day and hibernate for
periods of longer than, say, 20 minutes as well as over night.
Dwarf

"jalal" wrote:

> Dear all,
> which is better sleep or hibernate .. I have my hp laptop and I always turn
> the led down so its going sleep. I do that all the time .
>
> what is better thing, sleep or hibernate
>
>

Sleep mode keeps memory active so the system resumes quickly but still
consumes power. Hibernate mode stores memory to the hard drive and then
shuts down so the system restores a little less quickly but consumes no
power. Which is better is pretty much your choice.

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"jalal" <> wrote in message
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> Dear all,
> which is better sleep or hibernate .. I have my hp laptop and I always
> turn the led down so its going sleep. I do that all the time .
>
> what is better thing, sleep or hibernate

"jalal" <> wrote:

>Dear all,
>which is better sleep or hibernate .. I have my hp laptop and I always turn
>the led down so its going sleep. I do that all the time .
>
>what is better thing, sleep or hibernate

It depends. "Sleep" turns off the monitor and the disks, but keeps
power flowing to RAM (and BIOS, I suppose), so that the contents of
RAM are kept intact. So you use some power while the machine is
asleep. If you're using battery power, that's something you want to
think about. Since system status is remembered in RAM, recovery from
sleep is very quick.

"Hibernate" writes the contents of system RAM and video RAM to a disk
file and shuts the computer down completely. No power is used while
the machine is hibernating, so you won't run down your laptop's
battery while doing nothing. Since the machine has to read the
hibernate file the next time it boots up, it takes longer to recover
from hibernation than from sleep.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(Shell/User)

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