SSD - should I put it to Sleep/Hibernate/Hybrid or Shutdown

[GrayFoxX4]

So as the title said, what do I do? 

Because I searched the internet so much but there is no definitive answer.

 

any1 can help me here?

[AlwaysFSX]

Why does that matter with an SSD?

[dizmo]

Why do you think it matters in terms of storage?

It doesn't really affect it.

[Bradl79]

that is more of personal choice, it will be fine either way, i usually do hibernate

 

[vanished]

I found on a HDD, hibernation was noticeably faster than a normal shutdown, since booting was quicker and logging on was instant, rather than 1 minute+

 

With an SSD though, I find shutting down normally as fast if not faster actually.

[GrayFoxX4]

The reason i am asking is because i read online that hibernate with SSD will decrease the drive life because of the write on the drive

and sleep some have said it can cause the SSD to not boot all of a sudden

any input on that?

[xGGAx]

14 minutes ago, GrayFoxX4 said:

The reason i am asking is because i read online that hibernate with SSD will decrease the drive life because of the write on the drive

and sleep some have said it can cause the SSD to not boot all of a sudden

any input on that?

yes, some drives disable hibernation to prevent excessive/unnecessary wear on the drive. On Samsung magician it says that hibernation uses up to 75% of system memory size to create hyberfil.sys, so it is disabled by default just like the page file.
Never heard about problems with sleep mode. Most ssd enable devSleep by deafult so it should be ok.

[Captain_WD]

On 24.10.2016 г. at 8:02 AM, GrayFoxX4 said:

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Hey

 

My two cents on this:

• Sleep basically puts your computer in a Stand-By mode, putting all applications on hold but your system still uses some power to keep everything going as all the data is still in the RAM.
• Hibernate is the same with the only difference that the data from the RAM is dumped on the storage drive and the system uses 0 power while in hibernation but it takes more time to "wake up" and does writing to the SSD.
• Hybrid is a combination between the two designed for desktop computers as redundancy against power outages. It basically puts the system on low-power Stnd-by mode like Sleep mode but it also puts the data from your memory on the storage drive AND it leaves it on the memory. This way it allows you to "wake up" the system much faster but still provides you safety against power outages. 

 

Let me know if you need any other info

 

Captain_WD. 

[GrayFoxX4]

1 hour ago, Captain_WD said:

Hey

 

My two cents on this:

• Sleep basically puts your computer in a Stand-By mode, putting all applications on hold but your system still uses some power to keep everything going as all the data is still in the RAM.
• Hibernate is the same with the only difference that the data from the RAM is dumped on the storage drive and the system uses 0 power while in hibernation but it takes more time to "wake up" and does writing to the SSD.
• Hybrid is a combination between the two designed for desktop computers as redundancy against power outages. It basically puts the system on low-power Stnd-by mode like Sleep mode but it also puts the data from your memory on the storage drive AND it leaves it on the memory. This way it allows you to "wake up" the system much faster but still provides you safety against power outages. 

 

Let me know if you need any other info

 

Captain_WD. 

Hi Cap

I know all that, the thing is i got scared by the internet saying that Hybrid and Hibernate kills your SSD much faster and Sleep can crash you SSD all of a sudden 

so maybe i was misled by the internet or maybe that was all relevant in the past SSD and not the ones we we have now. Thats my issue, I dont know who is right

[cakevreter2000]

if you run windows i would atleast shut it down at night. if you run linux you can just hybernate it 

[Captain_WD]

27 minutes ago, GrayFoxX4 said:

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I believe that current SSDs have pretty good TBWs and hibernating the system won't really wear it out that much and they are quite good on the performance side to compensate for the slow wake-up times compared to sleep while providing some safety in case the power goes out.

 

Still, as @cakevreter2000 suggested, if you can simply power down your whole system in order to avoid any complications unless you absolutely need to keep some applications and files opened throughout the time you are away from the system. 

 

Captain_WD. 

[GrayFoxX4]

Thanks everyone for the help