2011-10-10, 17:06
hey eskro thanks for this thread, helpful because I just got my first SSD
I have one more option for you that you might want to add: Disable Hybrid Sleep
Hybrid sleep was introduced in Vista and 'on' is the default option for desktop installs in Windows 7. This is from the msdn blogs:
So even though you may have disabled straight 'hibernate' hybrid sleep still writes all your memory to disk!
I have one more option for you that you might want to add: Disable Hybrid Sleep
Hybrid sleep was introduced in Vista and 'on' is the default option for desktop installs in Windows 7. This is from the msdn blogs:
Quote:Hybrid Sleep
Hybrid Sleep is designed for desktops, not laptops. In Hybrid Sleep mode, when you click Sleep, the computer does two things:
Saves all of your data to disk as if it was going into Hibernation
Goes into standby. It stays in standby permanently (unless you change the setting in the Power Options CPL to make it Hibernate fully at some point).
The idea is that this is better than normal sleep because if the desktop loses power while in sleep mode ("cat chews through the power cable" scenario), it will still be able to recover because all of the data was saved (this confused me at first until I remembered that desktops don’t have batteries, so there is no way for them to “wake up from standby and go into hibernate mode” if power is lost).
It’s also better than using Hibernate on the desktop because, unless you lost power in the interim, you’ll get the fastest-time-to-desktop behavior of standby.
On the downside, going into Hybrid Sleep mode is slower than normal Sleep mode (because it as to do all of the saving-to-disk as if it was going into Hibernate), which is why it is off-by-default on laptops. It’s also not useful on a laptop unless you’re in the habit of yanking out the battery from the laptop completely while it’s in sleep-mode.
So even though you may have disabled straight 'hibernate' hybrid sleep still writes all your memory to disk!