| sethnintendo said: What is the difference between hibernation and sleep? I don't leave my PC running when I'm not using it. I even have sleep mode disabled. I know I could easily look it up but perhaps others that visit this thread don't know the difference either. |
Hi. Sleep mode keeps the system on, but in a low power suspended state. If the power is cut, it loses the suspended state. With hibernation, the entire session is written to the drive with the hiberfil.sys file. This lets the PC be fully powered down, and turned back on later to the same state, even if a long time has passed. A while back, sleep mode was notoriously flaky and not very efficient, but has seen huge improvements both in hardware design as well as operating system implementation, which leaves little useful need for hibernation with most users. Disable the hibernation, and you gain the equal amount of disk space of your amount of RAM.
