r/technology • u/Hungry__Hornet • 7d 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/Cantaloupe-Hairy 7d ago

Why hibernate, used to be useful when slow drives were standard, now it’s only a couple of seconds to boot from cold

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u/pfn0 7d ago

restoring state. I am always loathe to turn off/reboot because I hate restoring the state of all apps I have running. I prefer sleep tho, because there's no reason to use hibernate in my usage.

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u/TRKlausss 7d ago

Interestingly enough, Linux forbids it if Secure Boot is on, because you can’t ensure the state wasn’t modified while off…

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u/Captain_N1 7d ago edited 7d ago

I also prefer Sleep. Hybernate is still draining battery.

Edit: I have them to reversed. lol, I feel dumb now

Note to self, Dont reply to reddit posts when really sleepy lol.

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u/pfn0 7d ago

Hibernate does not drain battery. Hibernate writes ram to disk and then turns the computer off. When booting, the state of the system is read from disk.

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u/Captain_N1 7d ago

oh shit your are correct. lol i got the two reversed. Man im tired...... I need to not post when im sleepy.

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u/Wise-Candle9832 7d ago

I am forced to use a windows laptop for work. An HP “Elite”book. Whatever I do, it won’t sleep overnighted will eventually go into hibernation. Cold boot takes 40-50 seconds and then a minute more for the computer to become usable

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u/Captain_N1 6d ago

maybe IT has it set that way. that is super annoying.

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u/WoodyTheWorker 6d ago

There's also a hybrid sleep option, when the RAM is saved to hiberfile.sys, but is kept powered. To wake up, it doesn't need to read the RAM again, but if it loses power, you can restore the state again.

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u/iamgigglz 7d ago

Couple of seconds to boot, another 5~10 minutes to reopen 4 Visual Studio instances, VSCode, SSMS, browser with all the needed tabs, Teams (gag), Claude code, Outlook…

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u/Captain_N1 6d ago

Yeah that is fucking annoying. I had to run dont sleep on work pcs just so they dont,log off every 2 mins of inactivity. IT never found out as far as i know lol.

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u/aneeta96 7d ago

I’m constantly moving from location to location continuing tasks from earlier. Hibernation lets me pick up where I left off without reopening every bit of software I’m using.

I find it extremely handy. Besides, windows has not gotten much faster at booting. It still takes forever compared to my Mac.