Question regarding SSDs and Hibernating

[shipinabottle]

I've heard/read that it's "bad" to hibernate while using an ssd because that causes unnecessary write cycles to the drive. IDK if that's true or not, but my question is that, if I close all of my apps before hibernating, would there be anything that has to be written to the ssd?

 

[VeryCharBroiled]

hibernating only writes memory that is in use out the hiberfil file. so yes it will save wear on the SSD.

but I hibernate my notebook several times a day with stuff open as thats the whole point to me. take up where you left off without reopening stuff. that notebook has my 6 year old intel X25 M 80 gig drive that has gone through 4 systems and still is at 90% life.

Im at the point that I dont treat my SSDs any different from spinners. page file, temp files, work files, documents, all are on SSDs. speed is the whole point of them. use them. dont baby them.

odds are it will be obsolete before it wears out. just back them up (as you should any drive).

 

[bononos]

I've heard/read that it's "bad" to hibernate while using an ssd because that causes unnecessary write cycles to the drive. IDK if that's true or not, but my question is that, if I close all of my apps before hibernating, would there be anything that has to be written to the ssd?

Typical consumer ssd's are rated at 10-30Gb writes per day. Samsung claims 10Gb/day to last 28years. Kingston rates their drives at 20Gb/day for 3years. So it would seem to make sense to disable hibernation.

Endurance testing has shown typical mlc drives to last at least a few hundred terabytes of writes. A rough calculation of write volume for hibernation say 16(Gb) *0.75 (hibernate filesize is 75% ram size) *5 (times a day) *365= 21.9Tb of writes/year, so still reasonably low except for the 840pro which starts to reallocate sectors past 100Gb of writes.

 

[coercitiv]

A rough calculation of write volume for hibernation say 16(Gb) *0.75 (hibernate filesize is 75% ram size) *5 (times a day) *365= 21.9Tb of writes/year

Hibernate filesize is not an idication of how much data is written when the process is triggered. The amount written to disk on average is way less than that, otherwise your example system would take around 2 minutes to complete hibernation on a HDD.

I've heard/read that it's "bad" to hibernate while using an ssd because that causes unnecessary write cycles to the drive. IDK if that's true or not, but my question is that, if I close all of my apps before hibernating, would there be anything that has to be written to the ssd?

Use your computer as you normally would and stop worrying about flash wear: unless you have a small capacity (65GB) and budget SSD (low quality NAND), you have no reason to believe you are even close to a usage pattern that would wear the SSD before the entire system becomes obsolete (many years).