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Windows 11 hibernation has been silently hammering your SSD this whole time
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To be fair, windows hibernates a lot without telling the user (hibernates when shutting down, hibernates after sleeping too long). Hibernating when shutting down was largely meant to help with slow boot times on HDDs, and it maybe shouldn't be default now that everyone is on SSDs that both boot faster and receive more wear from hibernating.
All my homies disable hibernate.
It's shut down or nothin'
Hibernation on laptops helps preserve standby battery life, and I personally appreciate it as I may close my laptop lid and forget about it for a week.
Yeah well “Shut Down” doesn’t need to be an alias to Hibernate, which it has been since vista
Oh yeah 100% agreed on that one, "hibernate" should definitely be in the "sleep" category.