SSD Shut Down or Sleep

why not hibernate? uses no power... also much improved resume times in Win 7!

as for your answer ive not a clue
 
isn't hibernate same as sleep? I leave mine on 24/7 but I don't care about the electricity bill. Theoretically, it would b better to shut your PC down if you care about the SDD's life span.
 
Sleep keeps RAM powered, hibernate dumps the contents of RAM to HDD and powers down. Sleep is obviously much faster at resuming at the expense of using a smidge of power while sleeping.

I can't think of any reason to not use sleep, unless your motherboard/BIOS don't support it properly.
 
Sleep does have another potential advantage in addition to its high speed resume. Hibernation envolves dumping the entire active memory to the hard drive(or SSD), while Sleep simply keeps the ram powered at the cost of a few watts. (My system uses about 8 watts in sleep with 6GB ram).

MLC based SSD's have a limited lifespan based on the number of writes, so hibernate just adds a bunch of unnessessary writes to the drive. Sure if you only hibernate once a day its fairly low level wear, but if you have your PC set to hibernate automatically, it could dump ram to the drive many times a day.

Personally on an SSD system I would either have a hard disk for the hibernation file, or use S3 sleep instead.
 
^^ really not worth worrying about - the number of read/writes they are lifed for gives between 5 and 10 years of pretty heavy usage - 6Gb of read/write - even if it happened every 30 minutes - would only amount to less than 300Gb per day - small change in the grand scheme of things - especially considering how quickly people around here change their hardware!
 
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