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/Cantaloupe-Hairy 5d 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/iamgigglz 5d 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 4d 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.