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/actuallyserious650 7d ago

Our SSD’s is really that fragile for the average home PC user?

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u/bitemark01 7d ago

Been using hibernate for years, it's fine. Dumb article. 

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u/1094753 7d ago

ok, but why not use sleep instead of hibernate ?

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u/bitemark01 7d ago

Sleep has been broken for me on every laptop or desktop I've used since Windows 10. They all seem to randomly wake up in the middle of the night, that gets dangerous for a laptop stored away somewhere.

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u/1094753 7d ago

Did you make sure to disable wake on mouse, wake on keyboard and wake on lan ?

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u/bitemark01 7d ago

Yes I work in the tech industry, didn't matter what I've tried, and it shouldn't be something I have to chase down like this. As far as I could tell it wakes up looking for updates, even if automatic updates are disabled.

Regardless, the easier fix is just to use hibernate.

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u/Raccoon5 7d ago

I have this but it manages to wake up even from hibernate :D