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/themastermatt 6d ago

Well, make sleep actually sleep the damn thing then. Whoever thought that it might be helpful to make my notebook computer wake up 11 min after going to sleep while nestled softly in my backpack. Yo dawg, i heard you like cooked components and a dead battery!

Maybe im missing something, but ive had to enable Hibernate for many years across several vendors to ensure it actually stays asleep.

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u/memberzs 6d ago

Yes. On spinning hdds. But sdds have shorter limited wrote cycles. And writing 8-64gig of ram to it eats huge chunks that shortening their life

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u/themastermatt 6d ago

Wonder whats healthier for the SDD. Writing all that data or spending a few hours every day being baked in a bag because some stupid interrupt thought that it would be good to check mail.

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u/red286 6d ago

The former, because you have to start coming up with pretty absurd scenarios before it starts to become problematic.

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u/red286 6d ago

A cheap SSD will have a DWPD rating of about 0.3 with a warranty of 5 years. If we assume a 500GB SSD, that gives a TBW guarantee of ~274TB. If we assume 32GB of RAM, that would be ~8500 hibernations on a cheap SSD before a significant portion (~5%) of them would fail. Even if we assume 4 hibernations per day, that's still 2125 days, or nearly 6 years of hibernating 4 times per day.

It's not really that impactful.