Hibernation on Chromebook
Along with other options, Chromebook will be introduced with an option to hibernate. Find out its advantages.
Currently, Chromebook only supports sleep, shutdown, and restart modes of power. Although soon there will be hibernation on Chromebook.
What do you miss on Chromebook due to lack of hibernate option?
A user can at most choose to put her device on sleep in Chromebook. When asleep, the operating system of the device is on pause. Unused applications which consume power are also put to sleep. Although this may not suffice to ensure a long back up from battery. It is because the RAM is still functioning. RAM drains power.
So, all that a user has is to either shut down her device completely or put it to sleep for a short duration.
What is hibernation?
Most of the operating systems offer the feature to hibernate devices. On hibernating a device, the temporary data from RAM is collected and preserved in storage. At the same time, the device is also shut down. It may be a sort of middle route between the two choices of shutting down and sleep. It prevents battery from draining and at the same time, the temporary data is unchanged.
Google gave out details of the functioning of hibernation on Chromebook
Chrome OS is based on Linux. Hibernation manager called Hiberman will manage the new feature of hibernation on Chromebook. Hiberman is different from Linux’s hibernation. Hiberman will encrypt data before saving it in RAM. It will enhance the experience of sense of security. Further, on rebooting and logging in, the data shall be decrypted and retrieved by RAM.
