Is it safe to hibernate your Alienware with Hard drive or with an SSD?

Hey guys, this question have been always asked by many people but i can't find an actual solution so here it goes.
Is it safe to hibernate your alienware laptop always without solid state drive, i am currently using an alienware 14 (2013) with a 750 gb hard drive and i always shut it down, but i was wondering if it would be easier to just always hibernate and just open the screen and keep doing what you were doing the other day. the problem is that i have read in many forums that it could be dangerous to your hard drive because it will loose the same performance as when it was new, but on the other hand i have also read in some threads in here that it is safe and in matter of fact it can also make your battery to last longer because it wont take too much memory when starting up again.
thanks in advance.

 

Hibernation does not interfere with anything. It's a deeper sleep mode, and it's completely safe.

HDD's are like tiny record players (the data being the record). The more you use it, the more worn out it becomes.

 

The main reason that hibernation is seen as not relevant for SSD's is because they are so fast to boot up anyway, therefore making it much less of a chore to 'resume' where you left off. Of course, a complete shutdown means you might have to re-open tasks you were doing, but again, with a SSD that is like a hot knife through butter.

Personally, I prefer to turn hibernation off and regain some valuable SSD storage space. Typically, turning off hibernation will return you somewhere in the region of 75% of the total amount of system ram you have installed....if you are rocking 32gigs of memory, 24gb of SSD storage space is a LOT to lose just to have hibernation turned on.

How to disable and re-enable hibernation on a computer that is running Windows

 

I'd say use it with a HDD but avoid using it with an SSD - not only do you lose valuable space on a usually (space constrained) drive but SSD's have a finite number of writes available and dumping the memory to them each time you shut them down is never a good idea.

 

There is no risk on using hibernation on an HDD.

 

I always have hibernation switched on either with HDD or SSD, and is pretty fast on either format as it just dumps RAM contents to disk whilst saving battery fully or no drain from the power grid if plugged in

The only time I turn it off is if I am actually running out of disk space, otherwise it's on. Even still I like to reserve free space for hibernation even with an SSD. When using a SSD hibernation is particularly fast as it can dump/write way faster, it's like super fast sleep with having power fully shutdown, really convinant if you have a ton of program's running you don't want to close.

If you worried about excess disk space, there is a simple command you can run under CMD that will half the size of your hibernation file.

Run CMD as admin and then enter in POWERCFG -H -Size 50

 

I have used Hibernate with a X25 G2 SSD in my M11X with out problems. Only time I personally use it is when I am trying to save my steam login. Offline mode is still hit and miss at time but works much better than it use too.