Looking to purchase a new PC and building one from scratch for the first time. Minimal questions.
Looking to purchase a new PC and building one from scratch for the first time. Minimal questions.
I understand your point. Hibernation uses the HDD and powers off the system just like a normal shutdown. The session data stays on the OS partition, which you can move but isn't officially supported in Windows 7. When you restart, it reloads by moving data back into RAM. Standby loads immediately from RAM, while hybrid standby loads from RAM but keeps some data on the HDD for power loss protection, then restarts via hibernation. Hibernation is the slowest to start, uses no power while active, survives shutdowns, and recovers slowly. Standby starts instantly, needs power to keep running, doesn’t survive shutdowns, and recovers fastest. Hybrid standby (default on Windows 7) is the slowest to start, uses power during maintenance, survives shutdowns, but recovers like hibernation if power fails. I use hibernation and standby. I guess I should focus more on speed for a daily routine of about 20 minutes. For reference, my session used roughly 1.88 GB of RAM when loading in about 6 seconds after entering admin user pass. That was quite high.