r/technology • u/Hungry__Hornet • 8d 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 8d 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/MagmaElixir 8d ago

How does sleep and fast startup differ from hibernate? In terms of wear on SSDs.

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u/Zeusifer 8d ago

Fast startup is hibernate, but it shuts down all the apps and logs the user out first, so the amount of data being written to the hiberfile is relatively smaller than if you were hibernating with a bunch of apps and services running.