content: This is kinda bullshit. With SSDs there is no need to hibernate at all. Hibernation creates the hiberfile.sys, which is an unnecessary extra write process. It's true, you don't HAVE to shut down your computer at night, but it is no hassle anymore.  Hibernation and Sleep are actually not the same thing, most people just get confused by this because Microsoft Windows has a Hybrid-Sleep mode that actually uses combines both hibernation and sleep. To my knowledge it's only a default setting on non mobile devices. Hibernation is still nice trough. In many systems you still have physical drives/hybrid drives. Or for example I currently don't use the SSD in (one of) my system(s) as system drive. Hibernation does the trick for me and I needed all the space on the SSD for applications and data proccessing. To be fair this will most likley change with the release of Windows 10 and my fresh start on that system (also I have now a dedicated workstation ;D) But Hibernation/Sleep has a few other perks aswell, for example you can hibernate back to windows without entering a password (I am not sure if this is the default setting or not), so you can hibernate your system/laptop if you are at home or close to it and hard shutdown if you are away or travelling.   And while hibernation is maybe not that much faster than restarting, waking up from sleep is ultrafast.