Standby, Hibernate or Shut Off?

[blahzee]

Originally Posted by psykhO

Shut off my computer every night

 

[kash55]

Shutoff is the best, Hibernate is okay, Sleep is bad.

Sleep is bad because it keeps your harddrive running, and your ram memory cached.

 

[pj and bompton]

Originally Posted by Primavera Vills

The only time the computer gets shut off is when it gets an update

 

[eight2one]

sleep thru out the day...


hibernate all the other times.

 

[nocomment6]

save electricity! shut down.

 

[i3]

I shut it down every night.

 

[eebs7eez]

shut off, apparently signals coming from the computer can mess with sleep patterns. same with my phone, it's off at night too.

 

[kicks4kaskets]

Hibernate all the time.

 

[dipsetgeneral]

Desktop = Shutdown.

Labtop =

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Shutdown

 

[j0rdan23dunker]

when i'm finished using my laptop, i just shut the lid.

but if i know i'm not going to use it for more than a day, i'll shut it off.