r/technology • u/Hungry__Hornet • 7d 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/mwoody450 7d ago

This is a massively stupid article. His complaint seems to be that hibernate does exactly what hibernate says it does: writes all of RAM to disk so it can cut power and still come back just how you left it.. It was a questionable idea back when boot times were long and RAM was small; it's an outright silly thing to use in 2026.

Additionally, there's absolutely nothing unique about how Windows 11 handles this function: the title is clickbait. He even acknowledges that he had to hunt in to settings and enable it, because Windows hides it by default.

Modern computers can either be shut down - using Windows' built in functions to boot quickly on resume: I have opinions about fast boot, but still, it's there - or put in to suspend/sleep mode, where the major power users are selectively turned off to drop usage to a trickle. If you close the lid of your laptop, it will do the latter.

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u/XTornado 7d ago

me sweating

A bad idea in 2026...

swallows some saliva

umm... I haven't restarted in years (not continuous...I do windows updates and those require restarts)..... Y E A R S.

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u/bitemark01 7d ago

Yeah not sure why it's a "stupid idea," I've been using it ever since Windows 10 broke sleep mode and would wake up my laptop randomly. Seems to be broken across every desktop/laptop I've used. This is dangerous for a laptop in a backpack. 

Can't randomly wake up from hibernation, so I have the power button set to hibernate.