Windows XP hibernation on SSD

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Ok, I'm lucky enough to get an Intel G2 80GB at $250 from Newegg (before these bastards bumped the price again to $279 and made them out-of-stock!).

While I'm waiting for the drive to come, I'm concerned by the fact that for specific reasons I must use hibernation under XP. I read some posts and all were recommending to turn off the hibernation while using SSD. I wonder how much detrimental effects there will be if I use this feature on SSD? The hibernation file is only 3.5GB, so space wise it's not a concern. I guess wearing the drive is? Will the writing of 3.5GB x 2 per day by XP really fry the SSD quickly? Or it's not a big deal to be really worried?

I know Win7 is much better tuned for SSD so hibernation needs no longer be concerned using SSD. But I'm waiting for my school to provide the final copy of Win 7 so I'll have to use this SSD drive as the XP system drive in my current desktop for a while.

Any comments will be really appreciated!
 
Thanks! Certainly happy to hear that.

I'm anxiously waiting for this drive to come. I missed the first chance to get it on Newegg while it was still $229, but got it while it was bumped to $249. Newegg is openly ripping off its customers by charging it for $279.

I'm tempted to install windows7 RTM on it right away, but I don't know whether I'll I be able to directly move up to official copy later without re-installation. Installing win7 is a breeze, but installing and configuring all those extra softwares are not..
 
First off, as you've stated, the hibernation file is a pretty large file that's written and read sequentially, these are things SSD excel at... Well, the X25's sequential write speeds aren't the greatest amongst SSD, but nonetheless, it should at 'least resume from hibernation noticeably quicker than a regular HDD. Even MS sees no issue with the hibernation...

Engineering Windows 7
Are there any concerns regarding the Hibernate file and SSDs?

No, hiberfile.sys is written to and read from sequentially and in large chunks, and thus can be placed on either HDDs or SSDs.
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Vista/Win7 don't do anything noticeably different when it comes to hibernation with the exception of hybrid sleep mode, which is is basically sleep and hibernation combined into one, mostly a setting for desktops so if the power goes out then it can resume from the HD instead of RAM which has lost it's content due to the power outage (laptops just go to sleep and save the content to RAM, then to the HD eventually when it hibernates if battery is critical or the user has set it to hibernate after X amount of time).

Second, RTM is the final and official version of Windows 7... RTM means release to manufacturing. If your college has provided you with the RTM version and a key for it or you've obtained it thru MSDNAA or TechNet then you've got the final version of Windows 7, there's nothing to wait for. If you meant RC (Release Candidate) then yea, you're not supposed to upgrade from that directly to the RTM (tho you can, Google it)... If you installed WinXP now you'd have to re-install and config all those apps anyway, so if all you've got is the RC you might as well use that regardless.

If you've got Win7 RTM (which has been available since the end of August IIRC) then just install it and be happy tho, you lucky SOB... Sorry, I've been trying to get an X25-M G2 as well and I just got Win7 RTM the other day so I was trying to save myself unnecessary re-installs as well. :p The hibernation file really shouldn't put much wear on the SSD if you're only going into hibernate or resuming from it a handful of times a day, they're rated for a lot more writes/day than that. Chances are you'll be itching to upgrade it for a 256MB SSD with twice the sequential write speeds long before it's anywhere near critical degradation, heh.
 
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I think the point is that with the fast bootup times of SSD, hibernate is largely unnecessary (of course this doesn't take into account saving the state of your open programs...)
 
I find it very convenient to use it on my netbook just so I can leave FF and all my tabs open whenever I'm reading something and not have to reload it all when I come back to it... So i can see why he'd wanna use it with the SSD.
 
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