[SOLVED] SSD avg write

[Ejaay-_-]

Hi,

I just wanna ask for some tips on how can I prevent having a high average of writes per day? I think this is the reason my SSDs health is dropping quickly?

When I was checking on my HDD sentinel "Disk Performance" I was surprised that I'm averaging 40GB(40,171MB) per day.

So I started changing my download location and changing location on applications that are using my SSD's write.

This is how I usually start my PC with temperatures of my (Storage, CPU, GPU) (HWinfo, Hdd sentinel) on my taskbar
and also a Google Drive app that I usually sync my files to on my cloud storage every day but I don't usually sync my files.

Most of the time the only thing that my SSD is used is on browsing, sometimes video chat on Microsoft teams and some smalls files copying.

 

[USAFRet]

Power ON time - 9 Days, 3 Hours.
40GB per day.

This is a new drive, the OS drive?
What size/make/model is it?

Being a NEW drive, you see a lot of write cycles in the first few days/weeks.
This flattens out after a while.

That "40GB per day" will NOT be the same in a month or two, and thereafter.

 

[Ejaay-_-]

Power ON time - 9 Days, 3 Hours.
40GB per day.

This is a new drive, the OS drive?
What size/make/model is it?

Being a NEW drive, you see a lot of write cycles in the first few days/weeks.
This flattens out after a while.

That "40GB per day" will NOT be the same in a month or two, and thereafter.

Yes, this is a new drive. it's Kingston A2000 500GB

I have a friend who has similar storage as mine and it's been around with him for 3 months now. but the health has never dropped from 100

This is the Disk performance from his storage

 

[lvt]

40GB per day is pretty high for a consumer computer.

 

[USAFRet]

"Health" in your posted application is not rally 'health' as in OMG It will die.
It is merely an extrapolation of time vs write cycles.

I'll bet it stays at that "97 %" for quite some time.

 

[USAFRet]

40GB per day is pretty high for a consumer computer.

Not necessarily.
A brand new OS drive, you're still setting things up. A lot of writes.
Plus, watching a lot of utube vids.

This is like watching the gas mileage mater on your car.
Overall, the car will get 35mpg average, over a year.

But when you accelerate up the onramp, you see 11mpg on the meter.
"OMG! I only get 11MPG! My car is broken. What can I do???"

With a new drive, you're still on the on ramp.

 

[Bob.B]

Yes, this is a new drive. it's Kingston A2000 500GB

I have a friend who has similar storage as mine and it's been around with him for 3 months now. but the health has never dropped from 100

This is the Disk performance from his storage

I don't think you can compare writes per day.
Your friend may use their machine 4 hrs per day and you use yours 8 hrs per day.
Apples and oranges?

 

[mdd1963]

Even if that usage 1.2 TB/month were flat/constant, 14 TB per year is hardly an outrageous amount of write activity per year...(my own total writes average about 9 TB per year over 4 years)