SSD boot drive, Win 8.1, sleep mode OK?

JoeZorzin

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I read somewhere- can't remember where- that it's not a good idea to use "sleep" mode with a SSD boot drive if running Win 8.1. Comments?
thanks,
Joe
 

4slime

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It's generally not a good idea to hibernate or sleep using an SSD drive because it writes a while bunch of data to the drive that it'll only use once (to resume from hibernation.)

SSDs have a limited amount of write cycles so if you constantly hibernate, it'll wear out the SSD cells and significantly decrease your SSD lifetime.
 

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Do you think it's best to turn off "fast restart" feature of Win 8.1 if we have a SSD boot drive? It writes some system info to disk to speed up restarting- though probably not nearly as much as sleep/hibernate mode.
Joe