Question SSD being written too way too much.

[yEn0]

Over 200GB of writes to it today and i have no idea what is doing it. It is my OS SSD, and i am doing nothing which could be making it write this much. I have no games installed on the SSD. Any help is appreciated, thanks. My SSD is the Crucial MX500 250GB, is no where near full, and is rated at 100TB writes.

 

[richiestang_78]

Over 200GB of writes to it today and i have no idea what is doing it. It is my OS SSD, and i am doing nothing which could be making it write this much. I have no games installed on the SSD. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Do you have any antivirus or anti-malware running?

 

[USAFRet]

Over 200GB of writes to it today and i have no idea what is doing it. It is my OS SSD, and i am doing nothing which could be making it write this much. I have no games installed on the SSD. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Details, please.

What drive? Size/make/model.
How full isit?
What is telling you this write level?

 

[yEn0]

Do you have any antivirus or anti-malware running?

Apart from windows defender, no, and if i did, wouldnt that also mean my other drives would have alot of writes also? They only have 2gb each.

 

[yEn0]

Details, please.

What drive? Size/make/model.
How full isit?
What is telling you this write level?

Crucial MX500 250GB
100GB free
Hwinfo and crystaldiskinfo are telling me this info.

 

[USAFRet]

What software is running in the background?

 

[yEn0]

What software is running in the background?

I mean, nothing that should warrant 200gb worth of writes. Its only started doing 200GB a day recently (last 2 months)

 

[richiestang_78]

I mean, nothing that should warrant 200gb worth of writes. Its only started doing 200GB a day recently (last 2 months)

Monitor task manager for disk usage and see what is doing it.

 

[yEn0]

Monitor task manager for disk usage and see what is doing it.

Seems to be firefox, i also changed my TMP and TEMP location from my SSD to another drive. Should i uninstall firefox and reinstall it on another drive, such as my hard drive?

 

[MasterMadBones]

How much RAM do you have? For Firefox to make so much use of the drive, it must be running out of memory.

 

[timmllnsw]

Seems to be firefox, i also changed my TMP and TEMP location from my SSD to another drive. Should i uninstall firefox and reinstall it on another drive, such as my hard drive?

In Task Manager, under the processes tab, how many instances of Firefox is listed? They seem to have developed a bug where every tab becomes a new FF running. I have caught mine listed over ten times at once.

As far as a fix goes, I wouldn't know. Mozilla never got back to me about it.

One thing that might help a little, is to completely remove the pagefile from that drive.

 

[mdd1963]

Microsoft is/was pushing out latest Winver 1909 updates to my rig just 12 hours ago....; undoubtedly, this 5-7 period will see increased writes, as will major version updates upcoming....

I'd not worry about it over the course of a single random day, check it weekly/monthly, look for about 1 TB a month or so of writes unless you are a particular click-happy/ avid downloader of movies, etc...

What is the total amount of writes since the build? (For reference, I am at 25 TB written n about 33 months..

 

[logear]

In Task Manager, under the processes tab, how many instances of Firefox is listed? They seem to have developed a bug where every tab becomes a new FF running. I have caught mine listed over ten times at once.

As far as a fix goes, I wouldn't know. Mozilla never got back to me about it.

One thing that might help a little, is to completely remove the pagefile from that drive.

I did a search for that bug and this may be a temporary fix though I'm not sure this is the same exact bug. For just a setting change that may fix it, it's worth a try.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/open-firefox-tab-windows-volume-mixer

 

[timmllnsw]

I did a search for that bug and this may be a temporary fix though I'm not sure this is the same exact bug. For just a setting change that may fix it, it's worth a try.

Right. I'm sure it's just a setting too, but I could never figure out which one. You're right about the memory too. I remember getting a lot of FF is using extreme amount of memory messages all the time. I need to start that machine again, and see if it's still doing it. Here's hoping you track it right down.

 

[Deicidium369]

Over 200GB of writes to it today and i have no idea what is doing it. It is my OS SSD, and i am doing nothing which could be making it write this much. I have no games installed on the SSD. Any help is appreciated, thanks. My SSD is the Crucial MX500 250GB, is no where near full, and is rated at 100TB writes.

are you using it as a swap // virtual memory drive?

 

[Deicidium369]

In Task Manager, under the processes tab, how many instances of Firefox is listed? They seem to have developed a bug where every tab becomes a new FF running. I have caught mine listed over ten times at once.

As far as a fix goes, I wouldn't know. Mozilla never got back to me about it.

One thing that might help a little, is to completely remove the pagefile from that drive.

First mistake is installing that malware marketed as a browser - reinstall win, do not install firefox and see how few issues you will have.

 

[timmllnsw]

I did a search for that bug and this may be a temporary fix though I'm not sure this is the same exact bug. For just a setting change that may fix it, it's worth a try.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/open-firefox-tab-windows-volume-mixer

Well, I found time to dig that old laptop out and try that fix. No, it did not get it, and yes, Firefox is still exhibiting that behavior. I'm not certain about this, so don't quote me here. But I just came to suspect that my Adblock extension is causing it. I'll remove it completely, and we'll see what happens. I can easily see this causing Firefox to write to the disk a lot. My browser cache on that machine is enormous. But it's nowhere near 200 GB. Try about a tenth of that. 25 GB is still a lot of browser cache though.