Program to follow SSD usage?

Timppeli · Jul 29, 2016

Does anyone know a program that allows me to see how much different processes are writing to my SSD during some period of time. I have an Samsung 850 SSD that comes with Samsung magician program, that shows me the total number of bytes written. I have averaged around 30 gigabytes per day... And that's a lot and I have no idea which program causes this.

My best bet would be Chromes chache files, but even tho I do watch lots of youtube on quite high quality 30Gb:s a day is still too much to explain that way... My utorrent is saving the files to an HDD, so it shouldn't be that, and even if it was, I dont download anything near that per day... Anyways, if someone knew a program that allowed me to see the process that is causing this, I would be very grateful.

geofelt · Jul 29, 2016

Task manager, resource monitor will tell you how many writes each running program is doing.
How big is your ssd?
Larger drives will have better endurance.
Even at 30gb/day, you are unlikely to run out of endurance before the drive becomes obsolete.
Here is one report:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8747/samsung-ssd-850-evo-review/4

Timppeli · Jul 29, 2016

I have an 1 Tb drive, so the problem isn't really that huge, if needed I can live with the 30Gb usage, but it bothers me because it shouldn't be that high

And resource manager shows the current usage, I was looking for something that I could leave on and use my computer as usual and see how much different programs had used the SSD. But resource manager should get me started, thanks.

USAFRet · Jul 29, 2016

Timppeli :

30GB per day.
How old is the install on this SSD?
What do you use it for?

What is the current power on hours, and the current TBW?

Timppeli · Jul 29, 2016

USAFRet :

I have just got the computer and the install is about 1 month old, current TBW is 1.2 Tb but i have done few quite big installs that explain part of it. I don't know where I can find the current power on hours, but I would say that the computer has been on around 4-6 hours a day.

edit: Oh, and I use it mainly on gaming, surfing net etc. Some programming, but don't currently have any big databases or something like that in use.

USAFRet · Jul 29, 2016

Timppeli :

CrystalDiskInfo can show the TBW and Power on hours.
Being only a month old, that "30GB per day" is skewed. Windows Updates, and all the applications you've been installing.

Extrapolating your 30GB per day, that gives about a year before you get to 10TB. Your drive is probably warranted to 75TBW? So if you were to maintain this same level of writes per day (unlikely), you won't reach that until 2023.
But this write level will level out before long.

This is my 4 year old Kingston drive. Used to be the OS drive, now just a secondary.

3.8 yrs, 12.5 TBW.

Timppeli · Jul 29, 2016

USAFRet :

Yes, I most likely worried without real reason, it's warranted for 150TBW, but it just bothers me not knowing... Loaded the program and it shows 172 power on hours.

Oh well... Mayby I should just stop worrying as it not likely to cause any real problems, thanks for the help

photonboy · Jul 29, 2016

I just ran the numbers for GB per day (where "day" is twenty-four "power on hours").

It came to 28GB per "day" average.

I use it a lot, so most of that is likely web browsing data. (I have 18,207 power on hours).

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