Sleep vs Hibernation. Expecting Power Failure

[mrsmile]

If you are expecting a power failure, is it better to put your computer to sleep or hibernation?

 

[Albionm00n]

Greetings!

My personal opinion is to completely shut down for the outage...and make sure you are on a surge protector before the power comes back on. This is the safest way to avoid power surge issues when service is re-established.

 

[13thmonkey]

off is better than hibernation which is better than sleep.

Sleep is suspend to ram (power loss = suspend state loss)
Hibernate is suspect to disk (power loss = no effect)
Off is off (power loss = no effect).

Being off might, just possibly, confer some extra protections.

 

[ko888]

If I'm expecting a power outage I just let my UPS software perform an orderly shutdown (i.e. usually hibernate) of my system when the power outage actually happens.

 

[anshu1432]

Don't use hibernate mode if you're experiencing any power failure.