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In 2024, do you let your computer go to sleep or not ?
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Ranayna:

--- Quote from: Psi on January 08, 2024, 05:43:07 am ---Sleep working well depends on your motherboard, some motherboards have zero issues with it, others have issues occasionally when coming out of sleep, and some are just terrible.

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Drivers can also be a huge issue.
I have an AMD system, CPU and GPU were relatively new when i got them, and the drivers apparently were not all done yet :D
The system went to sleep jut fine, but it could not wake up.

You hit the button, lights turned on and fans spun up, but apart from that nothing happened and i had to force power off the system.
I disabled sleep when i was not able to find a fix and got used to sleep not working.

About a year ago, i reinstalled windows, with all new freshly downloaded drivers. I forgot to disable sleep again and was already annoyed when i noticed the system asleep. But to my surprise it woke up without a hitch. And it has done now everytime, not a single crash happened.
I have not made other changes to the system when i reinstalled.

Regarding systems waking up unintetionally: My recommendation would be to disable "wake by" for almost everything. Especially wake on USB can be very finnicky with some peripherals. Give me an old school press of the power button everytime :D
Jeroen3:
My pc starts doing Folding@Home when idle in winter because it keeps the room warm.
I have it set to never go to sleep, if I go afk it's probably doing something that I want it to finish.
David Hess:
Another reason that I do not use sleep on my laptop is that it cold boots faster than it wakes up from sleep mode.  The only reason to use sleep mode is if I want to keep applications open.

As an aside, my laptop and modern desktops cold boot faster than my Android phone.  My laptop is especially fast.
PlainName:

--- Quote from: Psi on January 08, 2024, 05:43:07 am ---With spinning disks it's best (for longevity) to leave them spinning rather than letting them power down and up on activity + timeout.
The starting/stopping is what wears the motor and bearings, and the thermal cycling isn't good on other parts either.

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Not disputing that but do you have a reference for it? A simple thought experiment suggests it isn't true for all cases (5 mins run time every 20 years, for example) so there should be some point where best practice changes from turning off to leaving it on.
DiTBho:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on January 08, 2024, 12:17:08 am ---Unless you have many standby/resume cycles per day and you use spinning HDDs, it can only make your hardware last longer. (And even with HDDs, it would take a lot of cycles to even shorten their lifetime.)

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umm  :popcorn:
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