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Old 05-14-2008, 11:28 PM   #2 (permalink)
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During Standby, power is cut from the HDD and info for stuff you were running is stored in your RAM. During Hibernation, the info in your RAM is saved to your HDD and power is cut to the entire system.

So, in short, there is no power to your HDD in either case.
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