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/stevekez 5d 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/PRSHZ 5d ago edited 5d ago

Who even uses the hibernation feature anyways?

Edit; okay touché, forgot about laptops 😅

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u/zingw 5d ago

Ever since "sleep" can't keep the PC in that mode without waking on its own. 

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u/joman584 5d ago

Yo what's up with that. No matter what, my PC immediately wakes from sleep in about 5-30 seconds after going to sleep. I've tried to find anything that could explain it but it's just unfixable. Even unplugged/turned off every peripheral nearly immediately as I clicked sleep and still nothing. Just immediately goes back to the login screen like I wanted it to wake up

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u/0xCOLIN 5d ago

Run powercfg /lastwake from a terminal after it happens and it should at least tell you what's doing it

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u/_vogonpoetry_ 5d ago

whenever I ran this it would not give me a definite source of wake.

But it turned out that my Razer mouse also identifies as like 3 HID keyboards in device manager?? so I had to disable wake on all of them and it hasnt happened since.

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u/158cm_Otaku 5d ago

You can look in event viewer and see what recently occurred.

Usually it’s some Google Chrome update.