SSD Host Writes per day exploded

[Stefan_E]

I've a 256G SSD; in the first 13 months, CrystalDiskInfo reported total host writes of 1.4TByte or 3.5GByte/day. In the last 10 days, it accumulated 2.3TByte or 230 GByte/day.

I'm not aware that my use pattern changed by any means. I've the Windows page and hibernation files on the drive, but otherwise I re-routed most writes to my conventional hard drive. I've accumulated (according to CrystalDiskInfo) 50GByte over dinner time, but Windows Task Manager reports total I/O writes at maybe 3GByte (eyeballing the total of the column)

I'm puzzled - any ideas?

Stefan

 

[USAFRet]

Turn off hibernation
Check Task Manager and see if there are any weird processes running.
How much free space is there?
Reboot and start CrystalDiskInfo again. Might be a glitch with that.
Virus and malware scan

 

[Stefan_E]

Interestingly, Samsung's SSD Magician reports a SMART value for Total LBAs Written as 3'128'633'529, whereas CrystalDiskInfo reports 7'423'669'920

Will check with a few more tools ..

Thanks, USAFRet; but Hibernation is not at play, as over dinner time, it didn't hibernate ... free space is around 30%; I rebooted many times over the last 10 days, so that can't be it either ...