do i need hibernate on a laptop that i use all the time?

HI all so i use my laptop it's mainly plugged in but i do take it off the plug twice a month a run it down , to 50% so the battery stays used, but do i really need hibernation on i do put the laptop to sleep at night but honestly can i turn hibernation off does it really need it ? its automatically setup on my HP laptop for 180 min then it hibernates. whats your opinions on this can i safely turn that off ? as hiberfil sys huge i noticed lol

huh so if i turn off hibernation i also have to turn off fast start up thats wired ? as on my old desktop hibernation was off but all that was still on interesting.

Tonyb said:

...do i really need hibernation on i do put the laptop to sleep at night but honestly can i turn hibernation off does it really need it ? its automatically setup on my HP laptop for 180 min then it hibernates. whats your opinions on this can i safely turn that off ? as hiberfil sys huge i noticed lol

I have all my laptops set up to sleep when I close the lid. I also have hibernate enabled, like you, for 180 minutes later. Without Hibernate you run the risk of letting the battery go flat, and in consequence loosing anything you had open when it went into sleep. Sleep requires a small amount of power to maintain it, hibernation doesn't.

dalchina said:

Bear in mind hiberfil.sys is used for more than just hibernation.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...b-27714dfe84f9

I have one laptop that has a problem with hibernation, so I have turned it off. That one just uses Sleep, which works perfectly without hibernation enabled. I do have to remember to plug it in before the battery drains, though.

huh i leave my laptop plugged in most of the time these days , i do take it off twice a month and let it run down. i did just notice in the settings menu it doesn't use it when it plugged in , its disabled when on shore power, so i guess i will leave it like this, but curious as how it uses fast startup when plugged in if hibernation is disabled on shore power, very interesting.

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here is how its setup i guess i leave all as is since on shore power it does not use hibernation i was not aware of this lol.

@Fabler2 actually talking to HP support it is disabled on shore power , its checked there as the laptop does not use plugged in thus in the first image it shows it hibernate plugged in as never.