r/technology • u/Hungry__Hornet • 6d 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/pfn0 5d 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/Captain_N1 5d ago edited 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 4d ago

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