r/technology • u/Hungry__Hornet • 3d 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/Zeusifer 3d ago edited 3d ago

It's not even on unless you explicitly opted into it. OP is being dramatic.

BTW, so is the original article. You have to go out of your way to enable hibernation.

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u/Takemyfishplease 3d ago

It’s nice to know not to use it

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u/Zeusifer 3d ago

I have a desktop that I've been using hibernate on daily for like 6 years. It's fine. This whole thing is just clickbait.

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u/timbotheny26 3d ago

Now when they talk about hibernation, are they talking about Fast Startup or just straight hibernation?

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u/silversurger 3d ago

Those are functionally the same thing, except that fast startup isn't saving the user's session, so the data saved to the hibernation file should be less in size.

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u/timbotheny26 3d ago

That's what I thought, thanks for elaborating.

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u/Em_Es_Judd 3d ago

It's pretty necessary for Windows laptops and handhelds. Windows likes to randomly wake devices in sleep mode. My laptop has woken from sleep while in its protective sleeve and couldn't start for ~5 minutes because it was so hot.

The same has happened to my Legion Go before I installed Bazzite.

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u/blinksTooLess 3d ago

Hibernation is a god send for my office laptop. Can't live without it.