high ssd writes

[uncle daddy]

i got my first ssd about 3-4 days ago. its a samsung 960 evo 250 GB. im curious about normal tbd. according to samsung magician its already written 0.6 Tb.

according to Crystal disk its had 14 hours of uptime, 196GB total host reads and 675GB total host writes.

all ive done so far is clone windows, some programs, and some files from my previous hard drive. about 200GB worth of stuff.

ive mostly been playing games, and file management on other drives.

id like to know if this ammount of data written is normal. because its over 3x that of data read from the disk, and its so far averaged almost 50GB/hour

 

according to resource monitor system writed around an avarage of 50000 B/sec

[Enderman]

The first step is to not clone windows, unless you enjoy having OS issues a few months later.

That also uses a ton of writes.

[uncle daddy]

i lost my boot disk. cloning was my only way to install windows on my new drive. the 2 other people i know that got ssd's said they cloned and have yet to have any issues

[uncle daddy]

im 100% sure that the problem isn't with the ssd itself, and that the problem is most likely to do with software. would doing a clean install of windows most likely fix whatever is causing the hih writes?

[uncle daddy]

i had GeForce Experience recording with instant replay and it averaged writing 2 GB /5 min i changed the temp folder to D drive and turned off shadowplay.

copying files from my old drive + reinstalling gta + system writes + shadowplay background recording = 600-620 GB which only leaves 60-80 GB unaccounted for. that im ok with and should not be a problem

[AshleyAshes]

Since you're only looking at those numbers now, that data could include writes performed as part of factory testing prior to the drive being shipped out.