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Grant
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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Hibernate vs Stand By Reply with quote
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:55:29 GMT, "Adam Helberg" <sendspamhere@yahee.com> wrote:

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In Standby is the hard drive kept spinning or is it shut down?

Classic standby: hard drive is spun down, memory is kept alive,
thus consuming power. Very fast recovery from standby to run state.

Hibernate is somewhat safer as memory image written to hard drive.

Grant.
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