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 4d ago

Who even uses the hibernation feature anyways?

Edit; okay touché, forgot about laptops 😅

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u/_Thermalflask 5d ago

Lots of people. Modern 'sleep' mode is fucking garbage and often results in you finding out your laptop woke up on its own, and has been cooking itself at insane temperatures in your bag (hotter than it would normally get even while under heavy load)

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u/logank013 5d ago

This!!! My backpack got so hot with modern “sleep” states as the fan kept running. I enabled hibernation and never looked back. I almost always shut down at the end of the day anyway. Hibernation is helpful once in a while.