Now that you mention this, I had the same thing happen with RDR2. When I resumed the game from sleep, the game was all corrupted and I started getting all kinds of hard disk errors. Black Ops 4 stopped working and I had to reload it multiple times. The corruption of RDR2 persisted and got worse, no matter all the clean installs. Ultimately I had to get a warranty replacement as the hard drive failed.
This is a brand new Xbox now, no corruption issues, just sleep mode issues. Whether the sleep mode crashes and hard drive failures are related, I don’t know.
No its not, I left Forza 7 in suspend mode over night the next day the hard drive had died.
Well actually, I resumed the game but all the textures in the game were not loading in properly - when I quit back to the dash, I noticed loads of error messages saying this wasn't installed, that wasn't installed etc. Tried to load it again, told me Forza 7 wasn't installed... Tried other things then it dawned on me, none of the games were installed anymore. On looking in the settings, that hard drive was no longer recognised. It never worked again.
Why is it misleading? Nobody knows for sure I agree but pouring scorn on my suggestion is pretty much the same as your argument.
That's not how things work, HDD's fail out of nowhere, no technology is immune to failure at a random point in time especially platter based hard disks.
It's misleading because it sends the message to people that if they use an intended system feature it's somehow going to damage their system hardware. If you could rationalize how it's damaging the drive that's one thing but you can't because it has nothing to do with the HDD to begin with. It's a stored state in the system memory, the HDD has ceased activity for the game.
To be completely honest no one should be using these features in the first place. Sure it's a convenience but the reality is you're storing software in memory for long periods of time and chances are regardless of how well coded a game appears to be it has some kind of memory leak. Depending on time away you're going to come back and things are not going load properly, the software will or will have crashed, there will be visual corruption, performance issues, certain game features wont work, you have to restart the software etc. That's the only problem that could result from something like this, I don't suspend and resume or use the low power functions for this very reason.
This doesn't even relate to just Xbox One, it's the same on my PS4, you don't turn it on for a week and come back to a game with a bunch of problems and it's pretty clear there's a memory leak. A fresh start to a game and system is always best, it's a clean slate and system state with nothing preloaded and clear memory.
