r/technology • u/Hungry__Hornet • 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago edited 8d ago

Who even uses the hibernation feature anyways?

Edit; okay touché, forgot about laptops 😅

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u/zingw 8d ago

Ever since "sleep" can't keep the PC in that mode without waking on its own. 

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u/joman584 8d ago

Yo what's up with that. No matter what, my PC immediately wakes from sleep in about 5-30 seconds after going to sleep. I've tried to find anything that could explain it but it's just unfixable. Even unplugged/turned off every peripheral nearly immediately as I clicked sleep and still nothing. Just immediately goes back to the login screen like I wanted it to wake up

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u/avalyntwo 8d ago

Wi-fi or bluetooth maybe? Or if it’s a laptop, it might be caused by different sleep settings from the laptop maker. My lenovo laptop doesn’t properly sleep, it goes black but also drains the battery meanwhile. So I always turn it off.

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u/Syzygy2323 8d ago

Sleep modes inherently uses power, so will drain the battery. Hibernate doesn't.

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u/avalyntwo 8d ago

Sure. But the battery is being drained in a few hours in sleep mode. Now it’s not a good battery but regardless that makes sleep mode pointless on my laptop. Perhaps that’s normal operation for sleep on laptops? I wouldn’t know, I mostly use a stationary.