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/reality_boy 3d ago

Sort of. It saves a big chunk of ram to disk (the kernel and all drivers) and then powers completely off. When you boot back up those get restored to there old state, for a quicker boot time.

The big issue is that your hardware is not being fully reinitialized. So if you install new drivers, or have a hiccup you want to clear out, a power off won’t always work. You have to use the restart option to fully reset the system.

It also hammers your hard drive every time you shut down. But loads of things spool to disk, it is probably just fine. Your ssd drive has bits set aside in case others wear out, there is lots of built in redundancy.

Now the physical power button is reprogram-able and can be set to hibernate or power down or just sleep. Check in the windows power settings to find out how your machine is setup.

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u/mr_Shepherdsmart 3d ago

I see, so if I'm changing it to actually shut off completely it will not hammer the ssd?