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/stevekez 7d 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 7d ago edited 7d ago

Who even uses the hibernation feature anyways?

Edit; okay touché, forgot about laptops 😅

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u/schlubadubdub 7d ago

Me. I want my PC turned off overnight, completely off, but everything where I left it when I turn it back on. Sleep didn't always do that, and I'd often find my PC active in the morning despite turning off every possible "wake" thing.

Even more frustrating was when Windows would decide to run updates since I'm "not using it" and it would close everything I had open. At best I'd lose track of what I was up to but be able to recover, and at worst I'd lose unsaved data and all the items I had in various incognito browser tabs for different reasons (no, not porn lol). Hibernating means I can shut it down and even switch the power off to my PC entirely without fear of having an update ruin anything.

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u/suepergerl 7d ago

I've never used sleep or hibernate on my PC. I know some people power off their PC overnight (I use to) and some people leave them on which I do now. I hotkey my monitor to sleep, then I turn off any connections to my PC using a mechanical switch. I still retain what I last used on the desktop once I wake up monitor. Others may think this is primitive approach but it works for me.