Samsung SSD 850 Pro total written bytes escalated quickly

[C3ck0]

Hello guys,
Recently I upgraded my Dell Inspiron laptop with Samsung SSD 850 PRO 128 GB. After I installed Samsung Magician software I've optimized OS for Maximum Reliability (hibernation, superfetch and prefetch are disabled and PageFile is shrinked) and enabled RAPID mode. Since then I keep an eye on Total Bytes Written (TBW), which escalated quickly showing me roughly 0,35-0,45 TB per day. For 3 weeks I've got 6,20 TBW, which is why I'm concerned because after the OS, drivers and programs installation I haven't written any data on the SSD.
I'm worried this SSD is going to fail too soon and not reach the advertised 10 years guarantee.

 

[Mr5oh]

I used to worry about my SSD, and then I realized they are about speed. The odds of me having that same drive in 10 years is zero. Heck even the odds of me having if it in 5 years is pretty low. I don't keep any sensitive data on them, other than that I treat it like a normal drive, when it dies it dies. By that time larger and faster drives will exist that I will want to upgrade too.

I think you are being too paranoid. I wouldn't even look at that TBW counter, its just going to make you worry.

 

[C3ck0]

I used to worry about my SSD, and then I realized they are about speed. The odds of me having that same drive in 10 years is zero. Heck even the odds of me having if it in 5 years is pretty low. I don't keep any sensitive data on them, other than that I treat it like a normal drive, when it dies it dies. By that time larger and faster drives will exist that I will want to upgrade too.

I think you are being too paranoid. I wouldn't even look at that TBW counter, its just going to make you worry.

You're right. Should look at this counter less. Thanks for the quick response!

 

[fallven]

I've got the same drive and I too think TBW is increasing too quickly, I haven't done much on this drive, but my TBW increased by 200 GB TBW in a week or so.

 

[C3ck0]

I've observed data in Resource Monitor and i saw, that around 10 MB/s writes come from the PageFile. Unfortunately I don't have enough RAM to disable completely PageFile to test if it decreases the amout of writes per day or week.