Question Samsung NVMe SSD shows around 225GB of data written every day ?

[Cvazeem]

Hi,
My laptop now has 2 x NVMe SSDs. I put a new SSD in it, a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB.
My OS is installed on the other SSD, not the new Samsung.

I haven't done any operations (Copy or Delete) on the Samsung SSD, yet when I open Samsung Magician to see the Total Bytes Written, it is showing an increase of around 225GB per day. I don't do any operations on the SSD, no benchmarking., yet the TBW is increasing ?
How can I fix this issue?
Thanks

 

[USAFRet]

Malware and virus scan lately?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Samsung Magician it is showing an increase of around 225 GB per day.
I don't do any operation on the disk. No benchmarking. Yet. TBW is increasing.
How can I fix this issue?

Do you have pagefile relocated to this new drive?
Do you have user profile relocated to this new drive?

What's on it?

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[Cvazeem]

I see pagefile is on C drive only.

F drive is Samsung SSD. Only one partition.

Check the screenshot.

 

[SkyNetRising]

The drive is almost full (97% full).
It's recommended to leave ~10% of SSD unallocated.
This helps wear leveling and keep drive performance.

Anyway - you can use Resource Monitor - Disk section,
to monitor processes, that do read/write operations.

 

[Cvazeem]

Anyway - you can use Resource Monitor - Disk section,

You mean using Task Manager?

I see the option of putting 'Over Provisioning' in the Samsung Magician software. I shall reserve 10% for that.

Should I do the same for my Western Digital Nvme SSD too? I just need to unallocate 10% of the drive? Or is there any software for Western Digital like Samsung Magician?

Thanks

 

[SkyNetRising]

>>Anyway - you can use Resource Monitor - Disk section,
You mean using Task Manager?

No. I mean - Resource Monitor.

 

[Cvazeem]

Will leaving 10% storage in Western Digital Nvme SSD also improves the life & performance?

 

[SkyNetRising]

This is standard recommendation for all SSDs.

 

[Ralston18]

In the Disk Activity window, File column, use the mouse cursor to drag and enlarge the column width so the full filename can be seen.

Also:

Look in Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer.

Either one or both tools may be capturing some error code, warning, or even an information event that is logged just before or at the times "data" is being written to the SSD.

Objective is to discover what process is continually writing to the SSD.

There may also be some clue in Task Manager > Startup and Task Scheduler. In Task Scheduler look for some triggered process being launched by some end user or system action.