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Windows 11 hibernation silently wears SSDs
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Windows 11's hibernation feature writes the full contents of system RAM to the SSD on every sleep cycle, causing excessive write wear. A user running a Samsung 970 Evo 1TB drive with 32GB of RAM noticed slower boot times after repeated hibernation cycles. The diagnostic data revealed the drive's health degrading from constant large writes.
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