I just let it sleep most the time. If it's inactive for like an hour it does it on its own. If I leave town for any reason I shut it down.
I just let it sleep most the time. If it's inactive for like an hour it does it on its own. If I leave town for any reason I shut it down.
Up to the end user. There's no real difference on modern hardware. Before hibernate was better on hdd, now it doesn't matter. Sleep might also let you remote in if you wanted to do such.
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What's the specs of this machine? Chkdsk or event viewer may help. There's an issue with bios and undervolting on Ryzen CPUs. If that's the case turn off c-states in bios.
I think it is fixed by disabling the C-State setting in bios. I have not tested yet cos I forgot untill you guys quoted me
But I had some weird shutdown when gaming a few times which happened to have the same symptom and error message/code as the issue I had with sleep mode.
So I disabled C-State and haven't had a crash since so I suspect it will fix the sleep mode as well.
Will goto sleep now and try sleepmode, a few hours would always result in a reboot due to power failure before so I will know when I wake up.
Will try to remember to post the result here.
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For me, it depends. If it's only going to be off for a few hours at most, sleep is my preferred method. If it's gonna be longer than that, I shut it down. Seems like a reasonable enough balance to me.
Typically sleep unless it's a laptop that would be staying asleep long enough to drain its battery.
What comes to parts wear-out from start/stop cycles, I think those legends are from different era of old (old even by HDD standards) hard drives, and not sure if relevant even then unless you were really mashing the power button.
Depends. Windows? I always shut down. Mac? I just close the lid and that's that.
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You can turn this off, I noticed this as well when I was checking my CPU uptime on task manager a while ago.
With a SSD booting vs fast boot the difference in startup time isn't really noticeable anyway.
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Meh might be because we have some devices in our houses that turning it off is not recommended, like central heating.
With Computers it might come from the W98/XP era where turning a computer on took ages.
Sleep mode is something I get when I go grab a drink or a snack.
Otherwise it's always shut down. Btw I'm not sure my motherboard has the option to turn hdd's back on after sleep. So they just disappear.
Sleep mode is not safe.
The fan is off, but the RAM is on.
You can leave the PC on with monitor off, as long as you don't hear Hard drive and fan spinning like crazy
It's probably true. I leave all my PCs on all the time and they almost never break. I only had one video card (not counting mice and other peripherals) break in the past 15 years. My parents on the other hand insist on shutting theirs down after every use and they have problems every year with something breaking down. I know it's a small sample size and could be just luck or random coincidence but still.. PCs barely draw any power when sleeping so I don't see any harm in leaving them on.
always used to sleep/hibernate my laptop when i was in school, cause booting it took 5 minutes which was just impractical in such an environment. i imagine nowadays with ssds it's much better.
i shutdown my desktop when im done for the day. the boot time isn't really relevant since i can just get a drink or go the toilet or declutter my desk if it takes a while for w/e reason. i also used to shutdown my monitors but nowadays i just let them do w/e it is they do when they dont get a signal.
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Modern computers won´t suffer from turning on and off.
It is always best to turn it off. I do it daily. It gives it a chance to restart and solve many conflics which (often) run on the background.