Windows – Sleep/Hibernate Confirm Screen from Sleep/Hibernate Button

In Windows 7, "Hibernate" is not on by default. You have to enable this option with the command line powercfg tool.

Here is a tutorial:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html

I noticed Microsoft has "Fixit" scripts which might automate this as well:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920730

I am using hibernate on an SSD now for more than two years. As Windows only writes the used RAM to disk the total number of written data caused by hibernation is not as high as most people expect.

You can calculate the write usage yourself. A typical lifetime guaranteed by e.g. Intel is 35 Terabytes Written (TBW). Assuming a usage of five years that would allow you to write up to 20GB to the disk daily.

I don't know what you are doing with that PC. But, even if you would do a full hibernate of 16GB RAM this would leave you 4GB per day — a value that most users will not reach.

Update: If you really don't want to use the SSD for the hibernate you can move it to a special hibernate partition: Creating a hibernation partition on Windows 7 This partition can be created on a regular HDD. The funny thing is that Microsoft developed this function just for the opposite direction (operating system on HDD, hibernate on SSD).