Can i move my laptop around while its sleeping/hibernating?
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Okedokey
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It will be fine. You may get heating issues, so don't do it for hours. Off and hibernate is very different for a laptop vs a pc. A pc it isn't any different to shutdown. Off is off of course 
Most laptops have accelerometers. These measure g force. Thats what kills hard drives when the read head is in action. The accelerometers return the read head to lock at certain thresholds.
Hibernate just puts Uptime data into ram so that it can be recovered rapidly and come out of hibernation. Experiment with Readyboost if you don't have an SSD.
Most laptops have accelerometers. These measure g force. Thats what kills hard drives when the read head is in action. The accelerometers return the read head to lock at certain thresholds.
Hibernate just puts Uptime data into ram so that it can be recovered rapidly and come out of hibernation. Experiment with Readyboost if you don't have an SSD.
KasperL
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It will be fine. You may get heating issues, so don't do it for hours. Off and hibernate is very different for a laptop vs a pc. A pc it isn't any different to shutdown. Off is off of course
Most laptops have accelerometers. These measure g force. Thats what kills hard drives when the read head is in action. The accelerometers return the read head to lock at certain thresholds.
Hibernate just puts Uptime data into ram so that it can be recovered rapidly and come out of hibernation. Experiment with Readyboost if you don't have an SSD.
My laptop is running with only an SSD.
Maybe I am not the best person to chime in here as I dont know what is going on inside technically, but if you care for a testimony, I do this all the time with notebooks, countless times a day and I've never messed one up yet. Be careful when you pick it up or place it back on a surface and dont bump it into things or drop it of course, but from what I've experienced, sleeping or hibernating while walking wont mess one up. Good luck!
KasperL
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Maybe I am not the best person to chime in here as I dont know what is going on inside technically, but if you care for a testimony, I do this all the time with notebooks, countless times a day and I've never messed one up yet. Be careful when you pick it up or place it back on a surface and dont bump it into things or drop it of course, but from what I've experienced, sleeping or hibernating while walking wont mess one up. Good luck!
Thanks for the response mate. Are you running with SSD's or regular harddrives?
KasperL
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Okay, thank you for the help.
All regular HDs. I travel for my living for several decades and have had several dozen notebooks during that time. I've even dropped a few and not hurt them. I'm calling that good luck as it's obviously not a good idea to drop notebooks. As I said though I'm just testifying to my own experience and someone else here could better explain technically what is going on. Cheers!
KasperL
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All regular HDs. I travel for my living for several decades and have had several dozen notebooks during that time. I've even dropped a few and not hurt them. I'm calling that good luck as it's obviously not a good idea to drop notebooks. As I said though I'm just testifying to my own experience and someone else here could better explain technically what is going on. Cheers!
It helps a lot mate. Thanks :-D
thirdshopping
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It doesn't matter,dno't hit it,that are all ok.
thetideproject
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I move my laptop all the time when it is sleeping and after 2 years, I still haven't hat a problem!
speedyink
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It will be fine. You may get heating issues, so don't do it for hours. Off and hibernate is very different for a laptop vs a pc. A pc it isn't any different to shutdown. Off is off of course
Most laptops have accelerometers. These measure g force. Thats what kills hard drives when the read head is in action. The accelerometers return the read head to lock at certain thresholds.
Hibernate just puts Uptime data into ram so that it can be recovered rapidly and come out of hibernation. Experiment with Readyboost if you don't have an SSD.
Actually hibernate stores whatever is in RAM into a portion on the hard drive, to allow zero power "sleep" (the computer is actually turning right off). When you turn it back on it essentially dumps that data back into the RAM. Because HDD's are slow this can take a while.
Sleep shuts down everything but RAM, to preserve everything you have open and keep it in a low power state. Also MUCH faster to wake from, tradeoff being it slowly drains your battery
And more often than not laptops don't have sudden motion sensors (SMS) to protect the hard drive. The ones that do advertise it.
As for the question, as long as the laptop is in sleep/hibernate you can leave it in your bag for as long as you want. Even though you have an SSD drive, which is not harmed by movement, if you leave your laptop ON in your bag it will have a high chance of overheating. Sleep, however, since it turns off all your hardware except for the RAM which produces little to no heat in this mode, can be stored in a bag or sleeve with no issues. So rule of thumb, turn your laptop off or put it into sleep or hibernate mode before putting it in your backpack.
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