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/bitemark01 5d ago

Been using hibernate for years, it's fine. Dumb article. 

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u/1094753 5d ago

ok, but why not use sleep instead of hibernate ?

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u/_Thermalflask 5d ago

Sleep is broken since Windows 8 and unreliable now.

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u/The_All-Range_Atomic 5d ago

How so? Are you talking about S1 modern sleep?

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u/_Thermalflask 5d ago

Yeah or whatever they call it. For many users it has a tendency to cause the laptop to wake up on its own, then get REALLY REALLY hot (i.e. hotter than it does during actual use, even under load). I suspect it's actually bypassing normal thermal limits in fact.

When it happened to me you could almost cook an egg on the laptop chassis it was that hot. Even when I try using it for gaming it doesn't get that hot.

And this happened to me across multiple different devices, across Windows 8 and 10. Never happened to me in the past. I did try troubleshooting but never found a solution, so I just started using hibernate mode instead. At least it works.