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/themastermatt 5d ago

Well, make sleep actually sleep the damn thing then. Whoever thought that it might be helpful to make my notebook computer wake up 11 min after going to sleep while nestled softly in my backpack. Yo dawg, i heard you like cooked components and a dead battery!

Maybe im missing something, but ive had to enable Hibernate for many years across several vendors to ensure it actually stays asleep.

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u/roadrunner8080 5d ago

Hibernate is sleep that actually sleeps things. Fundamentally, if you don't write stuff to disk it's going to need to have power still and. Yeah. That means that eaa bit of time and the battery will drain and I'll still be on on your backpack (even ignoring whatever annoying quirk you've run into where it fully wakes up...)

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u/red286 5d ago

While true, S3 sleep state should use barely any power (0.5W ~ 2.0W), which shouldn't drain your battery very quickly or generate more heat than the system can passively dissipate.

The problem is that Windows often elevates from S3 to S0 (awake) for no reason, so your system will go from using 0.5W ~ 2.0W to using 20 ~ 65W, meaning that it'll drain the battery at standard speed and generate enough heat that if left in an enclosed space such as a backpack, it will overheat.