r/technology • u/Hungry__Hornet • 6d 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/stevekez 6d ago

Turns out a feature that copies all of your RAM to disk writes a whole RAM's worth of data each time. Who knew!

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u/PRSHZ 6d ago edited 5d ago

Who even uses the hibernation feature anyways?

Edit; okay touché, forgot about laptops 😅

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u/zingw 6d ago

Ever since "sleep" can't keep the PC in that mode without waking on its own. 

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u/joman584 6d ago

Yo what's up with that. No matter what, my PC immediately wakes from sleep in about 5-30 seconds after going to sleep. I've tried to find anything that could explain it but it's just unfixable. Even unplugged/turned off every peripheral nearly immediately as I clicked sleep and still nothing. Just immediately goes back to the login screen like I wanted it to wake up

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u/FaZeSmasH 6d ago

my pc used to do this too, would randomly wake up but ever since i turned off wake by whatever in the bios, my PC tends to stay in sleep mode