How have you dealt with hiberfil.sys?

Since SSDs are still relatively small in size compared to HDDs and hiberfil.sys takes up quite a bit of real estate, how have you guys with an SSD or a small HDD system partition dealt with it? - disable hibernation, move hiberfil.sys to another drive, or just leave it as is?

Cruise

 

disabled and deleted

 

Same as this..

 

Also disabled and deleted. I don't really see much value in hibernation. Sleep, yeah, I use that a lot. But I'd just shut down before using hibernation.

 

Technet says it cannot be moved.

edit: thanks treehouse

 

I think lurker20 means that it cant be moved. It can however ofcourse be deleted

edit- no problem lol

 

I agree with allizomeniz so since hiberfil.sys can't be moved to another drive, I'll disable it. Thanks to all for your feedback.

 

On a desktop just disable it and delete the file if it still exists, Hibernation has never worked right for me on a desktop anyway. On a laptop, I would buy an SSD large enough to account for it.

 

Open up an elevated command prompt and type:

This will disable hibernation and delete the file.

I do this on both laptops and desktops. I've always found standby to be perfectly fine for laptops instead of hybernate.

 

Have a look in here https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=324910

 

Thanks CR, but that deals with the pagefile, not hiberfil. Since the pagefile can easily be moved to another drive/partition, that's not a big issue for me. But as the very large hiberfil.sys can not be moved I just deleted it using elapsed's method (above).

Cruise

 

@ Cruise

Hi, yes my bad Don't have my full thinking head on today it seems