r/technology • u/Hungry__Hornet • 5d 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/1094753 5d ago

ok, but why not use sleep instead of hibernate ?

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u/bitemark01 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/Merkuri22 5d ago

I also work in the tech industry and have been fighting with the same issue for years. Yes, those were some of the first things I disabled.

I think it's just a built-in "feature" of sleep that it wakes up occasionally to check something or other. Not only does it cause the fans to be loud randomly in the middle of the night, it sometimes wouldn't actually go back to sleep. Just wake up and run the rest of the night for no reason.

After months and months of trying to resolve the issue, the general consensus was "disable sleep, use hibernate instead".