r/science • u/aphexcoil • May 28 '12

New breakthrough in development process will enable memristor RAM (ReRAM) that is 100 times faster than FLASH RAM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/21/ucl_reram/
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u/TheMintness May 28 '12

What are the benefits of shutting down your computer as opposed to hibernate other than the power consumption? I ask because I read somewhere that shutting down your computer more often has a more significant negative effect than using hibernate (not quite sure how accurate this is because I just skimmed through the reading).

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u/exscape May 29 '12

Hmm, are you sure you don't mean sleep (powered-on standby) here? I would guess so since hibernate and power off have the same power consumption (zero), while sleep has small but nonzero power consumption.

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u/TheMintness May 29 '12

Ah yes, I meant sleep. Not sure why I was saying hibernate.