[SOLVED] Why is Automatic Maintenance consuming writes?

[James_369]

So, I noticed this when I left my computer alone for a while that it bumped up by thirty gigabytes in writes and only stopped when I got back. I looked and saw one of the major culprits is the Automatic Maintenance.

It's never done this before where Automatic Maintenance ends up writing to the SSD and it started when I clicked on "Start Maintenance" on Sunday then stopped it. Any reason why it's doing this? Was it because of my mistake?

 

[USAFRet]

What "automatic maintenance"?

 

[USAFRet]

If you're referring to the Windows function, that could be a lot of things.

Windows updates, for one. That could easily consume 30GB

 

[Colif]

During a maintenance session, the feature will run specific tasks, such as disk optimization and defragmentation, system and apps updates, security and malware scans, diagnostics, and other tasks with the sole purpose of keeping your device healthy and running at peak performance.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-manage-automatic-maintenance-windows-10

its not something I had even noticed, seems its on for me. No idea if it ever does anything.

 

[James_369]

What "automatic maintenance"?

This:

If you're referring to the Windows function, that could be a lot of things.

Windows updates, for one. That could easily consume 30GB

That what I assume, but I've been religiously updating my computer every Patch Tuesday on the Patch Tuesday.

My theory is that the maintenance defrags the SSD (yes, defrags and not trims) and that might be the issue. I took the liberty of disabling it via registry editor and it seems to be working.

 

[USAFRet]

Defrag on an SSD.

Yes, Windows does a defrag of sorts on SSD in the normal maintenance routine.
It is NOT the same as the defrag on an HDD.

There is no reason to disable that.


30GB, in the context of TBW for any current drive, is a non-issue.

Lets assume that your drive has a warranty number of 300TBW.
Quite typical for any smaller SSD.

30GB vs 300TBW = 0.01%
In a typical 5 year warranty and lifespan, you shortened its lifespan by 4 hours.

 

[James_369]

There is no reason to disable that.

While that is true, when trying to sus out what's causing the writes, I left my computer idle earlier this morning and it jumped to about 15 Gigs. This suggests that if I let it do what it wants, I might be looking at it doing more writes in the future.

It's never done this before and I suspect that when I clicked on the Automatic Maintenance on Sunday, it basically turned something on where now when it idles, it starts to write. It might also be possible that, when I stopped the Automatic Maintenance on Sunday, it might have done something where now Automatic Maintenance is trying to fix it... I'm not sure, so I disabled it for the time being while I look into this.

Also, my SSD is a 256 GB one if that alters the TBW thing.

 

[USAFRet]

Also, my SSD is a 256 GB one if that alters the TBW thing.

Which specific SSD?
We can find the exact warranty number.

300TBW for a 250GB drive is pretty typical.

And, that is only the warranty. Much like the 2-3-5 year.
It does not automatically fall over and die once it reaches that number or date.

Lastly, most consumer grade drives will operate far longer than that TBW number.

 

[James_369]

Which specific SSD?

SAMSUNG MZVLQ256HAJD-000H1

 

[USAFRet]

SAMSUNG MZVLQ256HAJD-000H1

That being an OEM drive, the warranty is hard/impossible to discover.

But still, "30GB" is pretty much irrelevant.
1/3 of a current game install.