Intel SSD 330 Hibernation Problem, Should I be Worried?

[sm625]

I recently got an SSD 330 and cloned my windows 7 onto it. Today I turned it on and it began to resume from hibernation as it usdually does. But it just stayed on the "Resuming Windows" screen. I turned it off and back on and was greeted with the message

I chose the first option and it resumed just fine. Shrug. Should I be worried? Is there some hotfix that I need? I already have KB977178 (the infamous disappearing drive hotfix).

 

[Charlie98]

The 330 has a SandForce controller... it's my understanding you shouldn't sleep or hibernate the SF controller. I have one and I don't... never had any problems.

 

[corkyg]

Hibernation creates a file using hiberfil.sys every time it is used. It really causes unnecessary writing to the SSD every time it is used. The snappy cold boot time really makes hibernation not of great value. I will not use it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hibernatikon creates a file using hiberfil.sys every time it is used. It realkly cuases unnecessary writing to the SSD every time it is used. The snappy cold boot time really makes hibernation not of great value. I will not use it.

Time to invest in a new keyboard, your K key seems to be inserting itself into text.

 

[corkyg]

Time to invest in a new keyboard, your K key seems to be inserting itself into text.

Hah! It's not the keyboard - it's my fat fingers hitting both at the same time. I fixed it.

 

[Coup27]

SSD's for a long time had massive problems with both sleep (standby) and hibernation. Sandforce was probably the most prone to a serious failure using these two features. Modern drives today that do not run a Sandforce controller seem to have worked out these problems but until Sandforce release their 3rd generation controller they are still vulnerable.

The answer to your problem is to avoid using sleep and hibernation on your Sandforce SSD. You may have to reformat or re-image to fix your suspected corruption issue.

There is a registry tweak you can do to disable sleep on the Windows start menu to avoid you accidentally clicking it.

 

[sm625]

Same thing happened again today. I got home and turned it on and it would not resume. I turned it off and then back on and chose the option to resume rather than delete the hibernation data. Again, it resumed without problems. I have to be missing something.

I've been using a crucial M4 for a year, and hibernating 1-5 times a day without any trouble. Not using hibernate cant be a serious solution. There has to be way to fix it...

 

[oslama]

I have same issue and turned of hibernation / sleep mode. How do I delete hiberfil.sys file since its taking up 10% of 120gb ssd space?

 

[VirtualLarry]

I have same issue and turned of hibernation / sleep mode. How do I delete hiberfil.sys file since its taking up 10% of 120gb ssd space?

If you shut off hibernation properly, then the file should delete itself.

powercfg -h off

 

[corkyg]

In order to delete it, you first need to disable the function hibernation. This explains how:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15140/what-is-hiberfil.sys-and-how-do-i-delete-it/

 

[oslama]

I disabled sleep option in the power settings and turned off indexing in drive properties.

If you shut off hibernation properly, then the file should delete itself.

powercfg -h off

 

[Charlie98]

I disabled sleep option in the power settings and turned off indexing in drive properties.

I don't believe that disabled hibernation, though...