Crazy high data written to SSD

[roughavoc]

So I had a look at my the Samsung Magician stats today and noticed I have written nearly 19TB of data to my drive (Evo 850 250GB). The amount of data doesn't actually bother me just the fact that Samsung has a warranty limit at 75TB written and I am 1/4 the way there already despite only owning the drive for 7 months and it only has 114 days powered on

Now comparing this to my old system drive (OCZ Agility 3) which has nearly 600 days powered on over 3 years and has only managed to rack up 7TB of written data.

How am I writing nearly 200GB a DAY to my main drive and didn't manage that with my older SSD? Is it W10 that is constantly eating my drive up? I have looked around in the resource monitor and nothing sticks out

Any assistance would be very much appreciated.

[NumLock21]

Set your drive to reliability and set your power option to balance.

Download the older version 4 of Samsung Magician software. The new one removed it and other useful features, making it dumb down for idiots.

[roughavoc]

4 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Set your drive to reliability and set your power option to balance.

But I want indexing / Write Cache Buffer. 

I didn't adjust anything on my OCZ drive in 3 years and didn't write anywhere near as much as I have on this Samsung drive.

[imreloadin]

8 minutes ago, roughavoc said:

So I had a look at my the Samsung Magician stats today and noticed I have written nearly 19TB of data to my drive (Evo 850 250GB). The amount of data doesn't actually bother me just the fact that Samsung has a warranty limit at 75TB written and I am 1/4 the way there already despite only owning the drive for 7 months and it only has 114 days powered on

Now comparing this to my old system drive (OCZ Agility 3) which has nearly 600 days powered on over 3 years and has only managed to rack up 7TB of written data.

How am I writing nearly 200GB a DAY to my main drive and didn't manage that with my older SSD? Is it W10 that is constantly eating my drive up? I have looked around in the resource monitor and nothing sticks out

Any assistance would be very much appreciated.

Do you happen to have Spotify installed?

[roughavoc]

Just now, imreloadin said:

Do you happen to have Spotify installed?

Nope, never have

[NumLock21]

3 minutes ago, roughavoc said:

But I want indexing / Write Cache Buffer. 

I didn't adjust anything on my OCZ drive in 3 years and didn't write anywhere near as much as I have on this Samsung drive.

Different drives have different ways of working. Can't apply your OCZ to every SSD out there.

[Teddy07]

9 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Set your drive to reliability and set your power option to balance.

Download the older version 4 of Samsung Magician software. The new one removed it and other useful features, making it dumb down for idiots.

I did the same thing. I was like WTF is this new version 5 shit when i bought my second 500 GB SSD.

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, Teddy07 said:

I did the same thing. I was like WTF is this new version 5 shit when i bought my second 500 GB SSD.

Yes version 5 is shit.

[Mira Yurizaki]

I can tell you it's not Windows 10, since I run Windows 10 and I've only racked up 5TB in about a year on my SSD. I also have a page file and a hibernate file (because can't be too half arsed to remove it), among other things such that my SSD isn't set up "optimally".

 

If it helps, open up Resource Monitor, look at the Disk activity tab, and see who's doing what.

[jj9987]

I have had a 512GB 850 PRO for around same time or few months more, my total bytes written is 8.39TB.

(and yes, I use Spotify). Though I have a 6TB HDD for all the non-speed-critical data, so it doesn't get all the hard work.

[roughavoc]

1 hour ago, NumLock21 said:

Different drives have different ways of working. Can't apply your OCZ to every SSD out there.

Fair enough, I'll use reliability and check in a week or two if I have another TB written :<

1 hour ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I can tell you it's not Windows 10, since I run Windows 10 and I've only racked up 5TB in about a year on my SSD. I also have a page file and a hibernate file (because can't be too half arsed to remove it), among other things such that my SSD isn't set up "optimally".

 

If it helps, open up Resource Monitor, look at the Disk activity tab, and see who's doing what.

I didn't think it was W10, brother and dad doesn't have crazy amount of written data.

[NumLock21]

19 minutes ago, roughavoc said:

Fair enough, I'll use reliability and check in a week or two if I have another TB written :<

I didn't think it was W10, brother and dad doesn't have crazy amount of written data.

After you set it to reliability, go to power options and set it to balance. Samsung changes it to "High Performance or Samsung Optimized" and your CPU will run at full turbo or something even when your not doing anything. I noticed it one day, when I opened task manager, and saw my CPU was stuck at 3.8GHz. Normally, it would drop down to 800MHz to 1GHz at idle.

[SageOfSpice]

Girlfriend's computer does this, but with a conventional HDD. 200GB a day of just random background file transfers. Try as I might, I have not been able to track it down to a specific service. Not really sure what's going on with it, honestly. For a short bit, I'd thought I'd tracked it to a specific W10 service, but the issue seems to persist. It wasn't an issue when the computer was on W8, but correlation =/= causation.

 

I'm sitting at about 4TB of data over about a year of usage.

 

Lot's of articles about it if you search on Google. Lot's of people blaming Windows Defender and whatnot. If I was less lazy, I'd look into it. 200GB is pretty crazy per day, especially when you consider that she only has 100GB of data stored on the drive in the first place.

[roughavoc]

I'm back, it has been 10 days with the drive set to reliability mode and 2 TB has been written. 

There has to be something that is causing this, my PC is never slow and whenever I look at the task manager it all looks normal. I am pretty lost as to what it could be.