How long do you leave your laptop on sleep or hybernate?

I just got a new one and was curious about how long the average perso has their laptop on sleep or hybernate as opposed to turned off completely. I'm not sure if it is safe to carry around all day on sleep, but it takes too long to boot it all the way up.

 

I just keep putting my laptop in hibernate until it takes a while to come out of hibernate. Which is about 4 days or so...
Or do you mean continuous? The longest for hibernate is overnight since I use my laptop so often, and stand-by is a max of 5 hours or so for me.

 

There's nothing unsafe about leaving your computer in sleep mode for a few days. I only use sleep mode. I never shut down and I rarely hibernate. I only reboot when I update it or install new software that suggests I do so.

Matt

 

I would not carry a computer around in sleep mode; turn it off or hibernate it.

Sleep mode just lowers the power usage, it does not turn the computer off. The hard disk is still moving and data is stored in RAM. You could have issues with damage or data loss, not to mention overheating.

Hibernation saves RAM to the hard disk and shuts the computer COMPLETELY off--this is the safest way to carry a computer without actually shutting it down.

 

Same for me. Been doing that for seven months and everything is fine.

 

hibernate for about 5hours, because after 5hours i have to go online and check some mails.

sleep.. never.

restart if i updated something.

shutdown... well that's part of the restart i guess.

 

I thought sleep was just suspend to ram and hibernate was suspend to disk.

Hibernate is good for as long as you want (years if you wish it, it just changes the state your OS has when it turns on).

Sleep well, that depends on battery life. I wouldn't have any issue walking around with it in sleep, but eventually the battery will run out (unless you put it to sleep plugged in for some reason.)

 

My current HP will only charge while on stand-by.

 

sleep all the time plugged and when i know ill be using often in a few hours, hibernate overnight only if unplugged

 

I never run standby as i carry it around and would hate to worry about battery life. i use only hibernate and occasionally shutdown if i have to in order to update.

 

Hey guys,
What's wrong with you?!
Stand by is safe, no problems with the hard drive since HDD never work in stanby. If you keep your laptop unplugged in standby mode: longest time is twice your battery life.
Different from standby, hybernate is a another way to turn your computer off. In hybernate mode, firstly, data in RAM will be completely 'mapped' to your hard drive and then turn off your computer. When you turn your PC on again, instead of initialize everything, what the PC does is 're-map' the data on HDD to RAM. In this way, there is no matter with the battery life since your PC is completely off in hypernate, nothing works. That's why you can easily turn you PC back on from hybernate even though you moved your PC around, remove/replace the battery, remove and replace your HDD (but don't change the HDD), leave your PC in months,etc.
After all, hybernation is the intelligent power off.

 

Same here. I put it in sleep when I go anywhere.

 

I like the picture Manarius.

 

The hard disk doesn't spin during sleep, at least on my laptop.
Actually the hard disk spins down after a few minutes idle to save battery life.