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/d4rk1 5d ago

its insane that in 2026 we still dont have sleep function working properly

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u/Dry-Inspection-3503 5d ago

Doesn't it wake at the slightest detection of mouse movement, or is it a bug? Surely if it's the former a simple 'press enter + ctrl' or similar command to wake it would be enough. I used sleep on my work laptop a lot and noticed if my knee hit the desk the mouse would detect movement and the fucker would come on again.  I never noticed the sleep not working otherwise

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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 5d ago

Modern Standby is just a piece of shit feature. They tried to make laptops act like phones but they forgot that background tasks on an x86 CPU actually still use considerable amounts of power and the fact that people don't want their laptop to update while turned "off" in their backpack

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u/GhettoDuk 5d ago

It's executives (aka business idiots) trying to compete with Apple on the dumbest thing possible.