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While that's true, it's still much cleaner than hibernation, as most users practice it. That's because the user session is logged out before the system is hibernated for hybrid boot.

It's been my experience that full restarts are rarely necessary to clear state. People just do it habitually, but logoff-logon will usually do the trick.

Also note that many driver changes and Windows Updates will still trigger a full reboot. Thus, they're not throwing away clean boots entirely. They're just reducing the frequency to roughly once per month.



Practically nothing. There's no write amplification from the sector size mismatch, because the hibernation file is written sequentially in one large block.

In any case, SSD "range anxiety" has long ago been debunked as exaggerated. If you're running a transactional database for a web server, then you should worry about SSD lifetime. If you're just using a computer as a normal user -- or even a power user -- then you have little to worry about.

Thus far, the track record of SSDs suggests that they're much more likely to suffer a controller failure or experience a firmware glitch than hit the flash lifetime.

Worrying about flash lifetime is like driving to the airport and worrying about dying in a plane crash. The drive is more dangerous than the airplane ride.