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Which of shutdown / hibernate / sleep causes the least wear to an SSD drive?

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Mar 15, 20269943 views
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Having an SSD for the only drive in my laptop I'm wondering which of shutdown / hibernate / sleep causes the least wear to it? Is there any serious test that would measure that? Suppose that the laptop is in daily use with mostly common business apps running (Chrome, FireFox, Word, Excel, OneNote, …

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Note: The power is cut for each operation and thus irrelevant, even for sleep the SSD won't receive power. From best to worst: Sleep, this barely reads or writes. Reboot, this would write a bit while shutting down and read a lot when booting. Howeve…

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