Is it safe to use hibernate on SSD's now?

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I have been using sleep for quite a few yrs now and I have removed/disabled the hiberfil.sys file, because it writes the memory to the drive when using sleep.This was totally fine because I had a UPS, so I didnt need the hiberfil.sys fill, but now Im not using a UPS.

So I was wondering, will it harm my SSD in the long term by enabling the hiberfil.sys file for sleep and hibernate modes? I would use shutdown, but I share my media through the house so I cant shut the pc down fully
 
It's always been safe, people were just being stupid about the limited writes on a SSD. Nobody will run out of writes on an SSD before they actually change the drive for a larger/faster one. There's been tests on SSD's where they have written hundreds of Terabytes to them and they are still working fine, your normal user is never going to run out of writes.
 
My old Vertex 2E SSDd use to slow its self down if it had excessive amouts of writes.. I am guessing todays SSD's dont suffer with this problem?
 
That was a Sandforce controller issue, not a SSD issue, plenty of other SSD drives from that time didn't slow down from lots of writes, just Sandforce ones.
 
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