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

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.

    However, writes wear the SSD significantly more than reads do as the cells will burn out over time...

  • Hibernate, this does a lot of writes (at least your whole used memory) and then read it all back in. You can download an automatic fix to quickly disable hibernation on Widnows...


You can find out by using SSDLife (it has a free version):

  1. Open SSDLife, record "Data written, GB" value (value1);
  2. Do a Shutdown/Hibernate/Sleep;
  3. Open SSDLife, record "Data written, GB" value (value2);
  4. value2 - value1;

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