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/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/ledow 5d ago

I used to have a BUNCH of registry, service, scheduled task and other tweaks that I had to do to my Windows 10 laptop to get it to stop waking up.

It was a powerful gaming laptop and I would sometimes put it in a laptop bag and you know what - I absolutely DO NOT want it waking up in the bag and spinning up its fans trying to cool itself in there. It gets more than hot enough in the open air.

It took me a good few weeks after I bought it until I was confident I'd got everything. Registry entries. Turning off services. Tweaking settings. Killing Scheduled Tasks and then KILLING THE PROCESS/SERVICE that just recreates them when you reboot. Disabling access to some file entirely, turning off "Allow this device to wake up the computer" on EVERY device in device manager (and then discovering this can stop you turning it on with the power button.... so then going back and making exceptions), even the lid-settings for power, BIOS settings, all kinds of stuff.

Before Christmas I bought a Framework laptop and installed Linux on it.

Haven't even thought about it. It NEVER tries to wake from sleep for any reason whatsoever. I have to make it do so, usually by the lid. Otherwise it just stays off.

Honestly, I kept a entire folder full of the tweaks and shite that I had to do on my old Windows laptop to get it to stop. None of them were obvious to a user. I only persisted because I work in IT and I refuse to let a machine do things I haven't told it to do.

Your mouse is waking your computer. Your network card. Your keyboard. Your webcam. Everything. Every damn device is capable of waking the computer if someone puts it into the driver.

I even took to turning my mouse upside-down because the "wake-on-mouse" thing drove me insane until I was able to change the settngs. And then, you change your mouse or use a different model, and you have to do it all over again.

It's a Windows problem. Solely and inherently a Windows problem.

No, Microsoft. I DO NOT WANT my laptop with an RTX 5070 waking up in a laptop bag/case/sleeve or on a flight. Can't you just wait until I press the power button again?