Holy fuck! 29TB of write? I even moved my Users folder to the Western Digital hard drive to mitigate wear and tear on the SSD. It should be just AppData, ProgramData, both Program Files, Microsoft software (edge and whatnot) and Windows itself. Think it's the pagefile?
And I bought it in early 2019 or at the end of 2018.
It could be a few things.
First windows logs a ton of data, Microsoft take the approach to run their logs in very verbose mode. Every time sync is logged, every svchost startup is logged, and much more on top of that, they also use cyclic logs so once the logs hit the size cap the full size of the log is written for every line that gets updated. So e.g. if a log is 20MB, when one line is added to the log, the 20MB is rewritten. Some of these logs are adding lines every few seconds. (they are also the source of many scams as the scammers know these logs fill up full of crap).
Next of course as you said is the pagefile, how much this writes I dont know, Microsoft themselves have said on a blog pagefile is much more reads vs writes, this will likely depend on memory pressure's on your system.
Hibernate another possible cause if you use hibernation.
In regards to AppData and ProgramData, AppData is used much more than you think, some examples.
Web browsers by default store their profile in AppData, and web browsers write a
lot of data, not just temporary cache, but also now have their own virtual filesystem, app cache, code cache, logs, the journaling for the logs, their databases, the journaling for the databases, then there is browser extensions which can also be write heavy depending on the extension. Also almost forgot, some will cache media as you stream it. Netflix, youtube etc.
Google drive will cache every file thats synced temporarily in its AppData folder.
Steam will download any game first inside its Program Files folder, before moving it to the destination.
Macrium logs inside ProgramData.
The default system temp folder is C:\Windows\temp. The default user temp folder is inside AppData.
Finally modern windows update has very large patches now due to the cumulative patch system
To give you an idea, I use both volume shadow copy and also do Macrium incremental backups, I moved my documents, pictures folders to a spindle, I also moved the user temp folder to a spindle (most temp files are in user temp), as an experiment I also currently on my main PC have my browser profile folder on my second ssd (when I put on spindle the browser was noticeably laggy), I moved my browser temp files to ram disk. Even with all this done I can see from size of volume snapshots and size of incremental backups there is still 100s of megs writes per day to my OS drive.
As long as you have confidence your ssd will be able to function for its rated erase cycles, you will probably be fine, it will outlive its warranty easily.
Hi,
We aren't that far apart
Difference might be central air conditioning and not.
Yep plus if you do rma you'll get a refurbished back not a new one this is crucial's rma policy.
Thanks for this info, I will think twice on the RMA then if that is offered.
