Are you by chance defragging your SSD? That might account for the writes.
--------- Brian On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > I have 5.8tb on mine, that I've had since jan 2010. > > > > On Aug 26, 2012, at 4:22 PM, "Greg Sevart" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Wow. That number is _extremely_ high for only 2 years of usage. You have > > something performing heavy writes to the disk. > > > > With 276TB of writes, 25% life is probably spot on. That means you're > around > > 330GB/day of writes on average--something is definitely going on. I > upgraded > > to my current Intel 320 in May of 2011, and I'm at 6.67TB of writes, so > > around 14GB/day. > > > > The darlings at the moment are the Samsung 830 and Crucial m4 (and > possibly > > the new Plextor M5 Pro), but unless you figure out what it is that's > writing > > so much data to your SSD, you're just going to kill it too. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Winterlight > > Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 2:23 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [H] Intel SSD Toolbox > > > > At 01:09 PM 8/25/2012, you wrote: > >> What does the utility report for writes (TB's)? > > > > 276.93 > > > > I don't defrag it, there are no auto backups, and I have a 5GB RAM drive > as > > my \temp folde. I am aware of every service and everything that > autoloads so > > if that TB number is excessive I don't know where writes are coming > from. > > I have too much physical RAM for it to be the swap. > > > > Are Crucial still the current best SSDs Greg? thanks > > > > > > >
