Shut down vs Hibernate

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Just something I was wondering about; is there anything 'dangerous' so to speak about putting your PC into hibernate every time you close your PC down, rather than choosing 'Shut Down'; ie, would it damage Windows files or the HDD by constantly doing it? I just don't understand why you would choose Shut Down over Hibernate if the option was there.
 
Well I'd expect hibernation to use more resources(Loading up past programs you had from the hard drive) than just rebooting the computer in a clean state. You can see some comments from people who have answered the same question here.
 
nick09
Well I'd expect hibernation to use more resources(Loading up past programs you had from the hard drive) than just rebooting the computer in a clean state. You can see some comments from people who have answered the same question here.
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Yeah, whenever I wake my computer the programs I had loaded will take a bit of time to load back to the state that they were last in. I don't know of any long terms effects of using it though. It's convenient though.
 
I'd expect more use on the hard drive since it's making a big file that it saves to and reads from. Likely not enough to shorten it's life drastically.
 
I use S3 mode for my computer and laptop.

Uses a small amount of power but all things are kept in RAM.

When you use S4 mode(hibernation) all contents from RAM are saved to the HDD/SDD and quickly loaded back into RAM on resume.

When you use S5(Shut down) Processes are terminated and the computer sends the motherboard the OK to Shutdown signal so it shuts down.

When you turn the PC on again everyfile needed to load the O/S is read, as well as other components getting tested by the POST.

So it is a mixed view.

Shutdown can take longer and they get POSTed at boot which means your hardware can fail quicker
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Hibernation is faster yet the process of writing and reading about 2GB of contents of RAM to the HDD can take a while but it is normally nothing the HDD cant handle.
 
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Resuming from hibernation is MUCH faster than a cold boot. I don't leave a lot of stuff running anyway. It doesn't "wear out" the hard drive, because that's in use all of the time anyway.
 
Shutdown on my laptop is much faster than hibernating (unless windows installs updates). Startup of course takes longer after a shutdown.

Grayfox
they get POSTed at boot which means your hardware can fail quicker
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So you're saying that testing the hardware causes it to fail faster? Riiight.
 
From a cold boot where all components are stressed and pretty much since there is load on the system during this test.

A little faster.
 

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