Question Amount of data written to my SSD is increasing so fast ?

[Gokhannn]

I have a MX500 1tb ssd i made a post about it having so much data written even tho its only 1.5 year old 1.5 months ago. But till then its even crazy in last 45 days written data is 6tb idk what is causing it and i have no idea how to find it out. i need some kind of help to figure out what is causing this.

 

[Eximo]

5.5GB a day. I could see that. If you also include TRIM functions every time you write to the disk, the system will take the opportunity of downtime to reconfigure the data on the drive. Particularly if the drive is nearly full it may have to shuffle a lot of data around.

Double check you don't have a failing windows update. It extracting, failing, cleaning up, and then extracting it again the next day could do that.

Run a malware check. There are hard drive mining based crypto currencies out there.

 

[USAFRet]

I have a MX500 1tb ssd i made a post about it having so much data written even tho its only 1.5 year old 1.5 months ago. But till then its even crazy in last 45 days written data is 6tb idk what is causing it and i have no idea how to find it out. i need some kind of help to figure out what is causing this.

You need to monitor over time.

Check this once a week.
Build a graph of usage. Some spike may emerge.

What has this system been used for in the last couple of months?

 

[Gokhannn]

5.5GB a day. I could see that. If you also include TRIM functions every time you write to the disk, the system will take the opportunity of downtime to reconfigure the data on the drive. Particularly if the drive is nearly full it may have to shuffle a lot of data around.

Double check you don't have a failing windows update. It extracting, failing, cleaning up, and then extracting it again the next day could do that.

Run a malware check. There are hard drive mining based crypto currencies out there.

there is no malwares. no failed updates eather also 25% of drive is empty

 

[Gokhannn]

You need to monitor over time.

Check this once a week.
Build a graph of usage. Some spike may emerge.

What has this system been used for in the last couple of months?

yeah thats what i thought just made a file to monitor it every few days the system is only used for gaming and most of the games arent even en the ssd. i just wonder if there is some app or something that i can montior what app is writing how much.

 

[USAFRet]

yeah thats what i thought just made a file to monitor it every few days the system is only used for gaming and most of the games arent even en the ssd. i just wonder if there is some app or something that i can montior what app is writing how much.

First, we see if there IS an actual problem.

Then, we delve into maybe what.

Any 'always on' monitoring program will also affect your game performance.

 

[Gokhannn]

First, we see if there IS an actual problem.

Then, we delve into maybe what.

Any 'always on' monitoring program will also affect your game performance.

how can i know if there is an acutal problem and im fine with my game performance being affected. If i can monitor what writes how much i should be able to figure out in few days

 

[USAFRet]

how can i know if there is an acutal problem and im fine with my game performance being affected. If i can monitor what writes how much i should be able to figure out in few days

Graph over time first.

I'm not aware of any godmode application that logs application writes to the drive.

 

[Gokhannn]

Graph over time first.

I'm not aware of any godmode application that logs application writes to the drive.

is there anything i should be looking at other then how much data written increases daily

 

[USAFRet]

is there anything i should be looking at other then how much data written increases daily

Not yet, no.

How much data has been written to this?
Screencap of CrystalDiskInfo, please.

The reason I say keep a log and graph, is to see if there is a spike in writes, or unusually large writes.

 

[Gokhannn]

Not yet, no.

How much data has been written to this?
Screencap of CrystalDiskInfo, please.

The reason I say keep a log and graph, is to see if there is a spike in writes, or unusually large writes.

did you meant crystaldiskinfo why would i need crystaldiskmark if so here it is currently

https://imgur.com/a/UIHDQIG

View: https://imgur.com/a/UIHDQIG

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, I meant CDI...😉

62TBW in 8300 hours is significantly more than my C drive (1TB 980 Pro).

What software do you have running all the time?
Game related streaming or benchmarking?

 

[Lafong]

did you meant crystaldiskinfo why would i need crystaldiskmark if so here it is currently

https://imgur.com/a/UIHDQIG

View: https://imgur.com/a/UIHDQIG

About 1.25 TB per week of 24/7 operation. Higher than 90 plus percent of users I'd guess.

Could be a runaway process of some type. Backup? Anti-virus? Cloud-related?

I am reasonably sure there is some way in Windows to see what is writing to the disk with considerable accuracy....I played with it within the last year. But I can't find it now.

 

[SkyNetRising]

is there anything i should be looking at other then how much data written increases daily

List full specs of your system.

If you have insufficient amount of ram, pagefile will cause significant number of writes.
If you have nvidia shadow play enabled, this will also cause a lot of writes.
Same thing, if you have torrent client running all the time.

You can monitor processes causing disk activity with Resource Monitor.
Open Resource Monitor,
switch to Disk tab,
find Disk Activity section (not Processes with disk activity section),
order Disk Activity section by column Total in descending order and
show screenshot.

 

[satrow]

Some cheat like WeMod, perhaps?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1b1gnbt/in_case_you_didnt_know_wemod_collects_tons_of/

 

[Gokhannn]

Yes, I meant CDI...😉

62TBW in 8300 hours is significantly more than my C drive (1TB 980 Pro).

What software do you have running all the time?
Game related streaming or benchmarking?

steam discord logitech app oh and that come to my mind which might be causing i have virtual desktop wich i use to connect my vr headset to pc but idk if it can use that much even so i get that new so it sitll doesnt explain old usage but might explain that 6tb in 45days

 

[Gokhannn]

List full specs of your system.

If you have insufficient amount of ram, pagefile will cause significant number of writes.
If you have nvidia shadow play enabled, this will also cause a lot of writes.
Same thing, if you have torrent client running all the time.

You can monitor processes causing disk activity with Resource Monitor.
Open Resource Monitor,
switch to Disk tab,
find Disk Activity section (not Processes with disk activity section),
order Disk Activity section by column Total in descending order and
show screenshot.

16gb ram rtx 3070 ryzen 5 5600 w10 1tb ssd 8tb hdd 4tb hdd 2tb hdd

https://imgur.com/Oa18pre

View: https://imgur.com/Oa18pre

 

[USAFRet]

steam discord logitech app oh and that come to my mind which might be causing i have virtual desktop wich i use to connect my vr headset to pc but idk if it can use that much even so i get that new so it sitll doesnt explain old usage but might explain that 6tb in 45days

So what changed 45 days ago?

 

[Gokhannn]

Some cheat like WeMod, perhaps?

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1b1gnbt/in_case_you_didnt_know_wemod_collects_tons_of/

dont have anything like that

 

[Gokhannn]

So what changed 45 days ago?

like i said i downloaded that software in last month or so to connect my vr headset to my pc. I dont think it would cause that much high writes but even so it still doesnt explain old writes

 

[satrow]

This should help you see what's going on now: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/app_read_write_counter.html

 

[SkyNetRising]

16gb ram rtx 3070 ryzen 5 5600 w10 1tb ssd 8tb hdd 4tb hdd 2tb hdd

https://imgur.com/Oa18pre

You're showing Processes with Disk Activity section.
I specifically asked for Disk Activity (Disk Etkinliģi) section.

It would look like this.
Just make sure, you order Disk Activity section by column Total (in descending order) and
make file names fully visible.

Spoiler

 

[Gokhannn]

You're showing Processes with Disk Activity section.
I specifically asked for Disk Activity (Disk Etkinliģi) section.

It would look like this.
Just make sure, you order Disk Activity section by column Total (in descending order) and
make file names fully visible.

Spoiler

sory here it is it just bunch of chromes i think bc i have so many tabs open

https://imgur.com/a/6dbLtVj

View: https://imgur.com/a/6dbLtVj

 

[Ralston18]

Another suggestion:

Use Process Explorer (Microsoft, free) to observe what processes are running on the system. May or may not be being trigged via Task Scheduler.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

Look for unexpected or unrecognized processes. Research to discover what they are and what they may be doing or trying to do.

 

[Gokhannn]

Another suggestion:

Use Process Explorer (Microsoft, free) to observe what processes are running on the system. May or may not be being trigged via Task Scheduler.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

Look for unexpected or unrecognized processes. Research to discover what they are and what they may be doing or trying to do.

I downloaded and looked but there is nothing weird everything seems normal no unexpected programs running.