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Computer care: Hibernate, Sleep or Shut Down?

Fresh6 days ago
Mar 15, 20263378 views
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Which is the best for the "longevity" of your hardware, when done on a daily basis? Should I use sleep, hibernate or shut down? EDIT: As evident in some of the answers, the answer seems to vary by OS and computer type.

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Consider this : If you send the computer to sleep (everything held in the RAM), and there is a power failure, all is lost. If you place the computer in hibernate, everything is written to disk and when you start the computer everything will be as it…

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