SSDs vs Hibernation/Deep Sleep in notebooks

[dream3]

Hey guys.

I've recently read that you should disable Hibernation/Deep Sleep to preserve the SSD's life because that would cause too much writes, especially in notebooks. Something like 4 hibernations per day, over 1 years, would void manufacturers maximum write specs.

I'm not sure if the article was recent though...

The thing is, if I leave my notebook with sleep only, battery will drain relatively quick. And if I keep turning it off every time I close the lid, well...sucks too!

Soooo, what should I do? Anything I'm overlooking here?

 

[JimmiG]

You could change all sorts of settings in Windows to minimize writes, but IMO it's just silly to baby your SSD like that. Granted, 4 hibernations/day with 8GB of RAM would be about 11.5TB of writes, and some cheap SSDs only have an endurance of ~70TB. However it will be cheap to replace the drive if it fails several years down the line. SSD's are still a lot more reliable than HDD's, especially in laptops which get moved around a lot.

Hibernation is a great feature and you should use it, IMO. In fact, Windows 10 will even use "Fast Startup" by default, which is a form of hybrid hibernation.

 

[Cerb]

Is the battery getting old? Are you sure you don't have something keeping it from going all the way into a deep S3? S3 should last at least a half a day (like 8-12 hours), in most notebooks.

That said, use the SSD, even if it might technically go beyond warranty write specs, and don't worry so much about it.

 

[dream3]

Is the battery getting old? Are you sure you don't have something keeping it from going all the way into a deep S3? S3 should last at least a half a day (like 8-12 hours), in most notebooks.

That said, use the SSD, even if it might technically go beyond warranty write specs, and don't worry so much about it.

12 hours is very little for my taste. I like hybrid sleep/hibernate cause it lasts for days.

 

[razel]

Yes 12 hours in S3 sleep is a bad battery or a USB peripheral that's draining. Even the bad 4 year old battery in my laptop that lasts less than 45 mins off full charge gets 3 days S3 sleep.

 

[Cerb]

12 hours is very little for my taste. I like hybrid sleep/hibernate cause it lasts for days.

Hybrid sleep lasts until you want to turn it on, again. Most of my notebooks lasted for days in S3 (even my old Pentium III one), but I know some others don't, and have even worked on one brand new one that didn't (cheap thin & light).

Either way, just use your SSD. Many have almost comical warranty write limits, but the flash itself is good for much, much, more.