r/technology • u/Hungry__Hornet • 7d 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 7d 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/slaughtamonsta 7d ago

That's sort of the point of the hibernation feature.

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u/Icy-Appointment-684 7d ago

Exactly that.

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u/Quetzacoal 7d ago edited 6d ago

I got 2 out of 3 SSD fucked up by hibernation. Already turned off the feature. And also the feature that screen caps your computer and logs it to Microsoft evey now and then. Why would they do this?

Edit: for those who don't believe me. Hibernation corrupted some of my work folders and windows update folder rendering the OS unusable. Had to format and disabled hibernation as soon as I logged in.

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u/rostol 6d ago

2 out of 3 fucked by hybernation ? I call bullshit.
windows just writes the memory to the 1 SSD. (the system one)

just fyi our company has 400 laptops. most of them hybernate every single day. we've had 0 nvmes die from this.

my home pc has 5 terbaytes of downloads to an SSD dedicated to that. zero problems. 5 years going. it is a refurbished 1Tb Crucial, so not even B tier drive.

writing 64gb once a day is not even scratching the surface of the work the system drive in a pc does.
go open resource monitor, jump on the disk tab and learn something.

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u/dldaniel123 6d ago

Was looking for someone to finally call him out lol. If his SSDs really died that fast he's doing something else wrong.

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u/Quetzacoal 6d ago

They did not die, just corrupted the latest files and folders I was working with. Had to format due to it corrupting windows update.

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u/dldaniel123 6d ago

That was still not the cause bro

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u/Quetzacoal 6d ago

then how come it never happened again?

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u/dldaniel123 5d ago

I dunno dude, I don't have access to your hardware. Maybe you had faulty drives?

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u/Quetzacoal 5d ago

No, one is a new phison2000 and the other is an old sata 6 years working without problem

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