Hibernation

[Walz of Spring]

Is it safe to keep my computer in hibernation mode all the time?

[Himommies]

Heck I just leave my computer on 24/7 and it's fine

[Guest]

Not much of a point to use hibernation mode these days unless you're an edge case. As far as I'm aware, hibernation saves the state of your computer on to a file that is loaded once your PC is turned on again. I don't believe it is that harmful, but if you use it often, your better off using sleep mode where its store in ram with the ram kept on. Hibernation may be resistant to power being turned off, but you may be better off just saving your work and turning the whole machine off. Now if you turn your computer on often and put it to hibernation every time, your HDD/SSD will experience more wear and have a shorter lifespan.

[Technomancer__]

15 minutes ago, tjcater said:

 your HDD/SSD will experience more wear and have a shorter lifespan.

 

it wont matter if its an hdd

it will probably die of a motor failure or something like that

[Gikero]

I disable hibernation because of the space it eats on my boot SSD.

Command prompt with admin privileges
powercfg/h off

[Salacious B Crum]

21 minutes ago, Walz of Spring said:

Is it safe to keep my computer in hibernation mode all the time?

Its been argued for both sides of the issue, some will say that it is more harmful turning it on and off as the system spikes if you will others say not so much the real question is what's your use case if you find yourself logging in several times a day that's allot of power switch cycles to consider versus waking it up that is my case so I just put it to sleep

[Teddy07]

1 minute ago, Gikero said:

Command prompt with admin privileges
powercfg/h off

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I tried that but I got no response. It just created a new line with the regular c:windows/system32

[Guest]

Just now, Ethocreeper said:

it wont matter if its an hdd

it will probably die of a motor failure or something like that

True, but if OP has some cheap HDD that typically dies after 5 years, it could speed up said motor failure

[Technomancer__]

Just now, tjcater said:

True, but if OP has some cheap HDD that typically dies after 5 years, it could speed up said motor failure

true by 1%

[Gikero]

The root of C:\ has a hidden file called hibernate.sys. If you open a command prompt with admin privileges and type that it auto-deletes it. No feedback is given. I temporarily unhide so I can see the file be removed, or use Spacesniffer.

[Gikero]

4 minutes ago, Teddy07 said:

I tried that but I got no response. It just created a new line with the regular c:windows/system32

The root of C:\ has a hidden file called hibernate.sys. If you open a command prompt with admin privileges and type that it auto-deletes it. No feedback is given. I temporarily unhide so I can see the file be removed, or use Spacesniffer.


Edited because I forgot to quote.

[Teddy07]

4 minutes ago, Gikero said:

The root of C:\ has a hidden file called hibernate.sys. If you open a command prompt with admin privileges and type that it auto-deletes it. No feedback is given. I temporarily unhide so I can see the file be removed, or use Spacesniffer.


Edited because I forgot to quote.

great it worked then