Windows 10: SSD: Standby vs. Shut Down

I have a desktop with C: as an SSD . . . It's totally quiet, which is great.

I see an obvious reason to "Shutdown" a spindle drive (the sound stops), but how important is that with an SSD?

Would you say that you should just do a Restart once per week, but Standby is fine the rest of the time?

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My computer won't shut down

Is there a big difference between a computer shutting down and being put to sleep? I mean, is it wearing down the computer if it's in sleep mode vs. shut down mode.

 

Sleep vs Hibernate vs Shut Down

In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter much. If you use Sleep for extended periods of time you're wasting energy; Sleep puts the computer into a low-power state but it keeps consuming electricity. Hibernation consumes some disk space but generally
not very much. The Fast Startup feature of Windows 10 (which is on by default) is a sort of hibernation, and using it will get you to your desktop from power-on pretty quickly--about thirty seconds for me. As far as "life and performance" of the computer
is concerned, as I said, it doesn't matter much.

 

I assume by "shutdown," "restart," and "standby" you are referring to the Windows commands on the start menu.

When you go to standby your hard drive completely powers off, regardless of whether it's an SSD or a mechanical drive. So this is no different than doing a shutdown.

There's no need to periodically restart your computer for the sake of the hard drive. But you'll probably be forced to by a Windows update anyway.

 

If you mean to just stop disks after set time period, I'm against it in desktops that are never hibernated or set to sleep. For SSDs it doesn't make much difference because they wake up instantly. Another reason for mechanical HDDs is that it takes a lot more power for them to start up and puts a strain on motor while heads have to make multiple passes at each wake up event to find right track and every time they do it's POST routine. All that helps them wear faster. Also introduced noticeable delay in accessing them. With SSDs it's a bit different story, Only controller is active all the time and rest only when accessed so even power savings are in mW so even in battery powered devices are not a problem.

 

If you're on a fast SSD, then it doesn't make much sense to use hibernation, the SSD is fast enough. Mine usually takes around 6 seconds to boot to the desktop

 

My desktop has an SSD and two HDDs.
It's on 24x7.
The only thing that approaches a shutdown is a Windows update/reboot.
Or a power failure.
No worries.

My last computer ... same thing ... for seven years. One HDD failed ... a Seagate (of course!), and it was replaced.
The box still works, but who wants a seven-year-old computer?

I see no harm in sleeping it when not in use, instead of running 24x7.
But either way ... no worries at all. It's just an appliance.

 

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Running one 24/ 7 and 365 just increases dust collection.
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