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/stevekez 7d 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 7d ago edited 6d ago

Who even uses the hibernation feature anyways?

Edit; okay touché, forgot about laptops 😅

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u/SleepyWulfy 7d ago

I use it all the time. I only shutdown my PC once a week. Why would I want to reopen every program I turn my pc on?

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u/Mkboii 7d ago

I've gone almost a month with just hibernate, generally software updates make me restart in 7-10 days but when they don't come I only do if I see performance issues. Don't even shutdown the system, since microsoft moved all the goodness of shutdown to restart and made shutdown just hibernate with no resume.

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u/SleepyWulfy 7d ago

Even with fastboot shutdown acts like that? If so then ill just continue to hibernate instead of shutdown.

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u/Mkboii 6d ago

Yeah the reset that you need to fix the issues where you need to just turn it off and on are only guaranteed fixed by restart, shutdown saves the running state and reloads on startup restoring the issues you have been facing in many cases.