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Power Consuption: Sleep versus Hibernate?
I am clear (at least I think I am) that the difference between sleep and hibernate is that while both preserve open windows, unsaved files etc, so that you carry on as before without loss of data, sleep preserves by saving to memory and hibernate preserves by saving to the hard drive or SSD. As a result, hibernate uses less power than sleep while the machine is hibernating. Both are very quick with an SSD.
Therefore, if the computer is to be left for a long time, hibernate is better (because of the lower power consumption).
But how much power does the average modern Windows 10 desktop computer use while sleeping or hibernating?
Thanks.