SSD Optimization Tip - Turning Off Hibernation Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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I've been asked a lot of times for optimization tips for SSD so here's one
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that is very very useful um if you have an SSD you probably know that they're
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not very big uh the average size of an SSD these days is around 120 gigs so I
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ran into a situation where I was using space sniffer to figure out the
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differences between the os's I had installed on a couple of my ssds and I
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realized that my hybrid file hyber file.
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CIS you don't have to get too close cuz I'll read it out is 12 gigs of space on
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a 120 gig Drive I never ever hibernate
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my uh test bench PC that's something I only really use on a notebook so why am
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I wasting the space that I could be using to install more copies of
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Battlefield 3 that doesn't run off my external steam drive and insists on
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installing in program files because origin is awesome um so yeah that's what
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I could be doing with that space instead so I'm going to show you guys how to
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disable it uh completely because it's not as simple as just setting it to
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hibernate after settings never you also
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have to turn off allow hybrid sleep and
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then once you're done that so you access this through control panel all control
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panel items power options edit plan settings so you have to go to the Chang
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Advanced power settings the next thing you have to do is open up an elevated
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command prompt so the way to do that is you search for CMD in the start menu you
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right click and you run as
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administrator then in your elevated command prompt you type
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power CFG DH so that's for hibernate space off
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press that and delete the oh that
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deleted it okay the instructions that I had seen have sometimes mentioned uh
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deleting that file but it looks like you actually don't have to now all of a
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sudden I have 12 gigs more space on my
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boot Drive yay now I can install more stuff on my computer that I do not
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hibernate so there there's my tech tip for the day unless I upload two videos
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