Does hibernation take any hard drive space?

Hi.
I am the proud owner of a brand new Toshiba I received for Christmas. I am asking this because last night my battery was running out of power and then my mom called me to the living room and eventually the battery ran out and the computer hibernated. When I turned it back on it went back to what I was doing when I left the room, working on my manuscript on Word. I am wondering if this will take up any hard drive space. That way I will know not to let it hibernate again and to be sure to plug the thing in before I leave the room.
Thanks for your help!!
Magali.
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In hibernation, data from RAM is dumped to the hard drive. Your hib file (it's a hidden system file usually located on C: as hiberfil.sys) will be equivalent to the amount of RAM you have on your computer. The hib file continually exists, in order to be ready to absorb your RAM upon hibernation. It does not increase or decrease in size over time. The drive wear is insignificant. It's basically a way to have your precise computer state perfectly conserved (as with sleep), but without draining battery or AC power (unlike sleep).
If you don't plan on using Hibernation I believe you can turn it off and free up the disk space - Look Control Panel / Power Options / Advanced Power Settings

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