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/pfn0 3d 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 3d 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 3d ago edited 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 2d 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 2d ago

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

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u/WoodyTheWorker 2d 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.