Abnormal SSD "Total Host Writes"

[T_Maister]

So I take good care of my drives, I make sure as much as possible for whatever is written to go to my HDD, Temp files, All my user files, NVIDIA shadowplay files, and I only installed a couple of games. The SSD I had before was treated the same and I had that one for 2 years (Samsung 850 EVO) and it never surpassed this amount on the screenshot. But the M.2 (Samsung 960 EVO) I recently received was new, and within about 3 months I am already at 114TB? Is this a malfunction? I don't understand how I am at 114TB and I am freaking out right now. As shown by the power on count and hours, this doesn't add up.

[ScratchCat]

Are you using Firefox?
Firefox will repeatedly save the current state every 15 seconds resulting in a constant writing load. You can increase the interval to ~1800000 (30 minutes) by altering sessionstore interval (default value 15000) in about:config (type into address bar).

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

Stuff like leaving Fast Start-up enabled will also put a lot of writes on your disk. 

[T_Maister]

1 minute ago, ScratchCat said:

Are you using Firefox?
Firefox will repeatedly save the current state every 15 seconds resulting in a constant writing load. You can increase the interval to ~1800000 (30 minutes) by altering sessionstore interval (default value 15000) in about:config (type into address bar).

No I am using Chrome. It doesn't add up anyway since I treated the new drive as the same as my old one. Here is my drive that was used for 2 years and it only reached 17TB

[T_Maister]

5 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Stuff like leaving Fast Start-up enabled will also put a lot of writes on your disk. 

I checked my MSI bios, and it said Fast Boot is Enabled (by default when I restored to Default Settings), should I turn that off? I am not sure why its on by default if it will mess up my SSD quicker.

[T_Maister]

Also according to this, I only have 300TB of life left... What do I do now? Would Samsung be able to help me out with something here?

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

31 minutes ago, T_Maister said:

I checked my MSI bios, and it said Fast Boot is Enabled (by default when I restored to Default Settings), should I turn that off? I am not sure why its on by default if it will mess up my SSD quicker.

Fast boot in Windows, not the BIOS. The one in the BIOS is different, it just skips some things during POST if I remember correctly. 

[T_Maister]

12 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Fast boot in Windows, not the BIOS. The one in the BIOS is different, it just skips some things during POST if I remember correctly. 

That's odd, how come I never had to mess with this setting with my old Samsung 850 EVO, yet it only wrote 17TB over the course of about 2 years, that doesn't add up to me.

[ScratchCat]

1 hour ago, T_Maister said:

Also according to this, I only have 300TB of life left... What do I do now? Would Samsung be able to help me out with something here?

Check Task Manager and sort by disk usage, is there a process which is reading or writing a lot? Example:

Spoiler

You do not need to worry about the drive dying, modern SSDs will write petabytes before dying.

https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead/2

[T_Maister]

2 hours ago, ScratchCat said:

Check Task Manager and sort by disk usage, is there a process which is reading or writing a lot? Example:

  Reveal hidden contents

You do not need to worry about the drive dying, modern SSDs will write petabytes before dying.

https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead/2

For the past few hours, it raised up by .2 TB, I only was using google chrome, maybe I am infected?

[ScratchCat]

16 hours ago, T_Maister said:

For the past few hours, it raised up by .2 TB, I only was using google chrome, maybe I am infected?

Try use malwarebytes anti malware or a USB linux live system e.g. Kaspersky Rescue CD (Search for alternatives if you do not trust Kaspersky - the US claim they are working with the Russian government however nothing has been proven and Kaspersky reiterate that they do not cooperate).

0.05TB/hour would be exceptionally high. The Task Manager should be able to identify the culprit.