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system standby or system hibernates?

post #1 of 16
8/19/06 at 10:09pm
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Other than shutting down your laptop, what do you when you don't use your laptop for awhile? do you do system standby or system hibernates? Thanks
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post #2 of 16
8/20/06 at 12:17am
if it's only for a while, stand by will be fine. but since it does not really turn off your computer (as what happens when you hibernate), you shouldn't leave it that way for too much time. even if it's for hours only, i will turn off or hibernate.
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post #3 of 16
8/20/06 at 12:41pm
I recently changed the option of "closing your lid and do nothing" to "closing your lid and go into standby." I started loving this option! It helps when you want to move/go portable and you just close the lid and it goes into standby in less than two seconds and when you are done moving, just open your lid and it's ready to go! It also parks the hard drive when you move so you don't hurt that. It saves power if you go out for a hour or two, instead of just leaving it on. I don't even have hibernation enabled anymore (saves me disk space) and when I'm done for the night, I just press the power button to turn it off.

I wish standby/hibernate worked for mine in Ubuntu though, that's part of the reason I moved back to XP. :-\
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post #4 of 16
8/20/06 at 2:29pm
Don't really want to hijack this thread, but have you looked at http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Instal...nd_Hibernation?

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zakaluka2.
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post #5 of 16
8/20/06 at 8:25pm
whats faster to get back into windows?
what saves more batt?
isnt hibernate harder on hdd?
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post #6 of 16
8/21/06 at 1:39am
1. Standby is faster.

2. Hibernation saves more battery power. Your computer is actually off after dumping the memory. On standby, your computer is still on, although it is using a lot less power.

3. It's not really any harder on the HDD than writing a 512mb to 2gb file to your hard drive. But, yes, it is harder on the HDD than standby, since standby doesn't write anything to the hard drive.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #7 of 16
8/21/06 at 11:32am
thanks. is there a setting to have it go into hibernation after "xx"minutes in standby?
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post #8 of 16
8/21/06 at 3:51pm
Go to the Control Panel -> Power Options. There, you can set how many minutes you want till Standby and till Hibernation.

Take a look at http://img15.imgspot.com/?u=/u/06/23...1156185318.jpg.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
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post #9 of 16
8/21/06 at 5:02pm
does that work when its in standbuy mode, thats what i ment, i figured thats only if laptops on and open
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post #10 of 16
8/22/06 at 12:20am
just as a possible reference, i notice my battery drains at about 1% per hour when in standby. something like battery somehow drains at like 1% every ~6 hours in hibernate, though that may not be as accurate as power is used to write, then read when going into and coming out of hibernation. i personally prefer standby, but sometimes it returns really slowly, but that doesn't happen too often.
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post #11 of 16
8/22/06 at 12:25am
only a remark: hibernation does *not* consume power. the contents of the ram are stored in an area of the HDD (no wonder when you activate it, the amount of hibernation used is almost exactly the size of your RAM), and then the computer is powered off. When you power on again, the system will boot in a special sequence, loading the contents back to the RAM memory and restarting your work from where you left. since it does not need to process all the files to give you an "usable" desktop, it's faster.

//edit

normally i make a comparision to ghost images vs. installation, relatively to the time taken. when you install an OS and all applications, the various installation programs need to process, uncompress stuff etc. etc. and that takes time. when you recover a disk image, you just make a copy back to the HDD. No (much) processing required... and so it's faster. i don't like comparisions, they are dangerous, but you got the idea.
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post #12 of 16
8/22/06 at 12:41am
I use hibernation on both laptop. Although it's not as fast coming up to desktop then standby, I belive this option is much better for me as all electronics are off to save ware and power.
But it beats booting fresh every time.
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post #13 of 16
8/22/06 at 1:54am
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Originally Posted by mikey pizano
does that work when its in standbuy mode, thats what i ment, i figured thats only if laptops on and open
That's the point of it. Even with the laptop open, you can see on the sample that it will first standby and then hibernate. After 30 minutes of inactivity (or whatever you set), it will hibernate. The only way that wouldn't happen is if the laptop has crashed while in standby or is powered off.

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zakaluka2.
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post #14 of 16
9/3/06 at 10:12pm
would it be okay to use hibernate often? coz when i click the power button to exit the hibernate mode, there is sumthing like recovering (just like when u don't shut down ur pc properly, the pc will do some scanning).

i'm scared that would affects my notebook. even the wireless starts to hang already. i just bought it on saturday. aeww!
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post #15 of 16
9/3/06 at 11:44pm
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Originally Posted by diam0nd
would it be okay to use hibernate often? coz when i click the power button to exit the hibernate mode, there is sumthing like recovering (just like when u don't shut down ur pc properly, the pc will do some scanning).

i'm scared that would affects my notebook. even the wireless starts to hang already. i just bought it on saturday. aeww!
I'd suggest you post in a readable color for starters. Then maybe search or read a couple of the threads on 'hibernate'. I use it all the time, mostly because it shuts down and restarts a lot quicker than saving your settings and reloading all that stuff. You do have an option when waking to ignore the Hibernate file and re-load from scratch, too.
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post #16 of 16
9/3/06 at 11:57pm
sorry.....

actually, i prefer hibernate too, since its function is almost like turning off the notebook completely, but will recover the whole things when exiting hibernate.

If i keep on shutting down my notebook using the turn-off, i scared my system might corrupted.
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