Shutting down your PC or just Sleep Mode

[niphilim222]

Hmm I haven't turned my pc off in days..

[yuanyasmine]

If you use sleep the machine will be using a very small amount of power all the time your in sleep. Might be a problem if your running off the battery. You would have to watch the battery charge and see what the results are.

 

If you shutdown... every time you power up the machine you will have to reload the OS. Which leads to a lot of work on your hdd if your doing that multiple times per day.

[HeyYou]

If you use sleep the machine will be using a very small amount of power all the time your in sleep. Might be a problem if your running off the battery. You would have to watch the battery charge and see what the results are.

 

If you shutdown... every time you power up the machine you will have to reload the OS. Which leads to a lot of work on your hdd if your doing that multiple times per day.

That's what the drives were designed for though, so, not like you are doing anything really rude to it.

 

And also, with Win 10, "sleep", and "shutdown", and "hibernate" are all essentially the same thing. The computer writes its current condition to disk, then shifts to a 'low power' state. When you wake it up, (by poking a key, wiggling the mouse, or pressing the power button.....) windows just reads the 'hiberfile.sys' and goes back to the exact same state it was in when you shut it down/put it to sleep/machine went into hibernation.

 

I am not really a fan of that particular process.... so, I have my machine configured NOT to do that. (Turn off Fast Start) So, when I power on my machine, it loads fresh from the SSD.