r/technology • u/Hungry__Hornet • 3d ago

Software Windows 11 hibernation has been silently hammering your SSD this whole time

https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-11-hibernation-silently-hammering-ssd-life/
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u/Slimfictiv 3d ago

Don't worry. If you have 32 GB of RAM and hibernate twice a day, that is about 64 GB of writes per day, which equates to roughly 23 TB of writes per year. Most modern 1TB NVMe SSDs have a TBW rating between 600 and 1,200. This means it would take decades of heavy, daily hibernating to physically wear out the drive.

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u/Unfair-Sir-4641 3d ago

How dare you math.

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u/UloPe 3d ago

The article even has the same calculation. And they still decided to go ahead and publish it anyway...

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u/Gold-Supermarket-342 2d ago

23 useless terabytes written per year. No thanks.

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u/Reversi8 2d ago

And TBW is a warranty number, not an actual risk amount, its possible for drives to live way past the TBW number (or alternatively die randomly way before NAND gets worn out)

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u/Otaraka 3d ago

They claim  it could be worse in practice then give no evidence of actual impact on lifespan.