Which is more harmful? Hibernate or sleep

[Sagar_20]

I often end up hibernating or putting my pc to sleep, between work. Apparently, sleep works faster while hibernation seem to take a long time. I know that's because sleep puts data into RAM which is a faster memory unlike Hard Drive but regardless, do any of these decrease the Life expectancy of the RAM or Hard Drive in any way? or possibly the other computer components?

 

[JalYt_Justin]

No, it shouldn't degrade any of the components at all. Even if it did it would be so minimal that it would barely matter anyway.

 

[noel_prg_la1979]

doesn't matter at all (unless you have outdated or buggy drivers that prevent either hibernate or sleep features from working correctly so update any old drivers for certain devices)

 

[madmatt30]

Hibernate uses far less power than sleep , sleep is much quicker to start back up - especially if you're running old amibios equipment that has to run through bios post again.