182TB (terabytes) of host writes in two weeks?

[Kyanzes]

Currently I own a 160GB G2 Intel X25-M and, according to the reported values by SMART, there have been 182TB of host writes since installation. I bought this drive as brand new and it's also important that a few days back it showed 175TB.

I have basically disabled all concievable fringe operations like indexing or defrag. Is this perhaps supposed to be GBs instead of TBs????

No reallocated sectors have been reported by SMART.

What do you think?

 

[Rubycon]

What program are you acquiring SMART values with?

I'd recommend using the Intel SSD toolbox with these drives.

 

[zephyrprime]

SMART values aren't read reliable by any one program covering all drives.

 

[mutz]

you can also use HD sentinel,
it shows you'r drive read&write activity,
if it's too high, you can always open sysinternals process monitor and view (in the tools tab) the most used files and most accessed/written to.
you'll be able to instantly catch any process causing the system to behave hyper actively.

 

[P4man]

Lets do some math.
Assume 100 MByte/s constantly (which seems rather unlikely). That is 350 GByte per hour. ~8TB per day (when 24/7 operation). 115 TB in 2 weeks.

Safe bet something is misreading smart

 

[Emulex]

how is a trim and non-trim write counted?

if you have to overwrite adjacents it should count yes?

 

[Voo]

how is a trim and non-trim write counted?

if you have to overwrite adjacents it should count yes?

Since Intel calls the smart data "Host Writes", my guess is it only counts the amount of data the host tells it to write to it, i.e. write amplification and wear leveling is ignored

 

[Kyanzes]

Thanks guys! Checked it with different tools like CrystalDiskInfo and indeed it should have been GB instead of TB. The culprit was HD Sentinel.

 

[mutz]

The culprit was HD Sentinel.

ahh!

it's reading here some errors with the drive too :hmm:.