Shutdown vs standby vs hibernate

[Tarcxy]

^^^You mean standby? Hibernation doesnt consume any resources as the machine is simply turned off!

No..i was talking about hibernate..
Hibernate does consume 2.3 watts. That is to maintain lan. Sleep consumes 3.1 watts..Only when its totally unplugged or shutdown(including lan) its 0 watts.

 

[Striker10]

No..i was talking about hibernate..

Hibernate does consume 2.3 watts. That is to maintain lan. Sleep consumes 3.1 watts..Only when its totally unplugged or shutdown(including lan) its 0 watts.

Have you tried disconnecting the pc from power source? Well, I have and it works fine. It doesn't consume any resources AFAIK as the machine's turned off. Once the machine is powered off, there's no way it's gonna consume 2.3watts "maintaining" LAN because it can't.

 

[chesss]

Hibernate does consume 2.3 watts. That is to maintain lan.

I guess its possible...
Are you sure about this ?

 

[sam000]

I shutdown

 

[stormblast]

Lock the pc.
otherwise its always on unless there is a hardware change or it stops working.

 

[Striker10]

Lock the pc.
otherwise its always on unless there is a hardware change or it stops working.

Lucky! No power shutdown there eh!

 

[stormblast]

Lucky! No power shutdown there eh!

not for long hours. touchwood.

but there is the occasional power shutdown for sometime which is why the pc is connected to the ups.

 

[thexfactor]

Thats a very impressive ON time you got stormy ... I always shutdown if I'm going to be away from the PC for more than 1/2hr.

 

[Tarcxy]

Have you tried disconnecting the pc from power source? Well, I have and it works fine. It doesn't consume any resources AFAIK as the machine's turned off. Once the machine is powered off, there's no way it's gonna consume 2.3watts "maintaining" LAN because it can't.

Well, I havent tried unplugging while hibernating..am currently stuck with my laptop..But, I guess you just answered your own question..

when you disconnect your the pc from the power source, its not gonna consume 2.3 watts "maintaining" LAN because it cant.. Otherwise when its plugged in, it will "maintain" that LAN..simple..

Read this..Should You Turn Off Computer -Conserve Energy | Microsoft Small Business

However, I noticed that the lan duration after resuming from hibernate does reset to zero..but the MS link above says different..

 

[Anuroop]

Shut down normally.

 

[amol_cool]

It's shutdown for my lappy in the night if not downloading anything. I want it to rest in a while

 

[sensatul]

I shut it down in night , used to standby while charging my MP3 but i never hibernate it coz of two resons

1.It eats additional HDD space(Evei have turned off system restore to free Hdd space)

2.I used to Hibernate few yrs ago and one day my PC refused to start. I needed to reinstall everything to make it work, repairing didnt work either.

 

[satyanjoy]

stand by - most of the time -its in my power setting profile

 

[panky.killer]

24/7 good when to download