--- title: Windows has been quietly wearing out your SSD, and the... description: Windows Fast Startup silently writes gigabytes of data to your SSD on every shutdown by saving a kernel snapshot to hiberfil.sys — a hidden hibernation file.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/windows-has-been-quietly-wearing-out-your-ssd-and-the-fix-takes-one-setting-hpn9bz5oi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Windows has been quietly wearing out your SSD, and the fix takes one setting | daily.dev og:description: Windows Fast Startup silently writes gigabytes of data to your SSD on every shutdown by saving a kernel snapshot to hiberfil.sys — a hidden hibernation file.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/windows-has-been-quietly-wearing-out-your-ssd-and-the-fix-takes-one-setting-hpn9bz5oi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hpn9bZ5oi.png og:image:alt: Windows has been quietly wearing out your SSD, and the fix takes one setting og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Windows has been quietly wearing out your SSD, and the fix takes one setting **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Windows Fast Startup silently writes gigabytes of data to your SSD on every shutdown by saving a kernel snapshot to hiberfil.sys — a hidden hibernation file. With NVMe prices having more than doubled, this unnecessary wear and wasted disk space (up to 12.5GB) is worth addressing. Disabling Fast Startup via 'powercfg /h off' in an admin terminal deletes hiberfil.sys, reclaims the space, and reduces daily write cycles on your boot drive. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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