Differences between the standby, sleep, and sleep status in windows

Differences between the standby, sleep, and sleep status in windows

In addition to the normal working mode, the computer has three modes: standby, sleep, and sleep. These three modes are mainly through coordination of the machine's power plan, so that the effectiveness and recoverability of data storage can be organically combined with whether to supply power, to achieve energy saving and ensure data storage.

The standby mode is used in the old system version. It is generally used in scenarios where computer users only temporarily leave the operating system. In this application scenario, the standby status enters the fast state and the response is fast when the system recovers. However, you must ensure the continuous power supply to the computer. Otherwise, if the power supply is abnormal, so it is equivalent to executing the Force shutdown operation, that is, all unsaved data will be lost. This tragedy often happens to desktop users, so be careful.

Sleep is a new mode in Vista and will be retained in Win7. It is basically similar to the Application Scenario of standby mode. It only needs to provide a small amount of power to the memory during sleep. In case of Power Supply exceptions, all unsaved data can be restored. This mode is more advanced than the standby mode.

The difference between sleep and sleep is that sleep supports full power failure and does not save data without loss. It only takes a long time to recover data.

So when I use the Win7 system, I only need to consider the sleep or sleep mode: if the power supply can be ensured, select the sleep mode, because the operation efficiency is high; if the power supply cannot be guaranteed, choose sleep mode. Of course, I personally think that the most secure way is to choose to shut down, which is both power-saving and safe, so as to avoid any exceptions during machine operation, resulting in data loss, which outweighs the loss.