Is there any tool for SSDs to check how much data you wrote onto it ?

[BuBu Shofronea]

Software tool checking the total amount of data you wrote to your SSD. Is there such thing ? And i'm not meaning something you run from the beginning of the day and shows the results at the end of it for the data wrote since the program has started.

 

[Bob57]

If you are asking about raw reads & writes, then yes. Any utility that can display the S.M.A.R.T. data of the drive will be able to display what you are asking for. You can download a free copy of speccy to do this if you don't have any other utility. Also, usually you can download utilities from the vendor that supplied your SSD. Those utilities should also have the ability of displaying S.M.A.R.T. data as well.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, BuBu Shofronea.

Basically yes. Check out this article: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-tools-for-managing-and-maintaining-your-ssd/. You should be able to find what you're looking for. Along with the SMART data of the drive (as suggested by Bob57) and probably the "life meter" which some manufacturer's feature in their tools.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

 

[BuBu Shofronea]

well, the only thing i can find thru speccy is the Total LBAs Written/Total LBAs Read. For the written it says 24.something. How does that translates to gigabytes ?

 

[USAFRet]

Software tool checking the total amount of data you wrote to your SSD. Is there such thing ? And i'm not meaning something you run from the beginning of the day and shows the results at the end of it for the data wrote since the program has started.

CrystalDiskInfo does this.

This is one of my SSD's

 

[Bob57]

Okay, what data are you really trying to compute? If you are trying to compute how much space is being consumed on your SSD, then using LBA read/write count is not going to give that to you. SMART LBA reads/writes tell you how many operations have occurred in total since the drive was first powered up. They are simple persisted counters and can be used to give you an idea of your drive's life.

As far as how large an LBA is, that is dependent on the block size for the device, usually 512 bytes. Using speccy you should be able to compute this. Compute the following: Real Size/Sectors. In speccy, if you select the storage tab you should be able to see the values I am referencing.

If you are only seeing 24 LBAs written, that does not seem like a valid number to me because that would compute to being something in the order of 24 * 512 (12228 bytes). If that is the case then it may be that your SSD is not correctly maintaining SMART data.

Hope this helps!