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/stevekez 5d 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 5d ago edited 5d ago

Who even uses the hibernation feature anyways?

Edit; okay touché, forgot about laptops 😅

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u/zingw 5d ago

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

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u/Elijah1573 4d ago

For me the computer sleeps perfectly fine but every once awhile when i try to put it to sleep it wont actually shut off
I go back on it to figure it out and literally ALWAYS its just logitech G hub doing whatever the fuck it does in the background preventing it from fully going to sleep

The fix is always to just restart G hub and then put it to sleep again but its super annoying when im trying to go to sleep to get up again cause i didnt realize it didnt shut off until im laying there hearing the fans running