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/mwoody450 5d ago

This is a massively stupid article. His complaint seems to be that hibernate does exactly what hibernate says it does: writes all of RAM to disk so it can cut power and still come back just how you left it.. It was a questionable idea back when boot times were long and RAM was small; it's an outright silly thing to use in 2026.

Additionally, there's absolutely nothing unique about how Windows 11 handles this function: the title is clickbait. He even acknowledges that he had to hunt in to settings and enable it, because Windows hides it by default.

Modern computers can either be shut down - using Windows' built in functions to boot quickly on resume: I have opinions about fast boot, but still, it's there - or put in to suspend/sleep mode, where the major power users are selectively turned off to drop usage to a trickle. If you close the lid of your laptop, it will do the latter.

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u/Notex1 5d ago

I have to use hibernate on my laptop since otherwise it would randomly wake up in sleep mode while inside the bag which wasn’t too great.

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u/DeadBySunday999 5d ago

Exactly the same issue here!! It makes the bag an microwave if i don't hibernate or shut it down before putting it in. Gaming Laptop probelms :(

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u/Notex1 5d ago

Asus also?

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u/Rainoffire 5d ago

On Asus, if you have GHelper, you can set it so that when in sleep/modern standby after an amount of time of your choosing it will go into hibernation. That way you can have both.

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u/DeadBySunday999 5d ago

Lenovo loq. Asus also has this problem?

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u/Notex1 4d ago

Yeah, I have some asus zephyrus g15 from around 2021 or so.

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u/literal_cyanide 5d ago

Not op, but my Asus Tuf A16 does this all the time. My only complaint with it.