Question Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500gb Writes Really High

[STERKOFF]

So after 7 months, Samsumg Magician is showing 203.9 TB written and power on hours of 1908. This is pretty much just an internet machine and also for watching movies and youtube. Never had a drive show more than 20-30TB after years.

Crystaldiskmark info lists:

Total Host Reads 4526 GB
Total Host Writes 213795 GB

Any ideas??

 

[VirtualLarry]

203TB!!?! In 7 months? That's either a LOT of video-watching (they download to the storage drive as they are streamed), or your doing distributed-computing in the background (set the checkpoint interval to something larger, like 10 minutes), or, you're "mining", or have "coin-mining malware".

Or the SMART data is just FUBAR, somehow, or you bought a returned or server refurb SSD.

 

[UsandThem]

You can also use CrystalDiskInfo to get some more info on it (like hours and such)I missed you posted about it already. Here's my 960 EVO, so it's been in use for several years now (although I really don't watch movies on my PCs). Maybe there's some type of setting for streaming movies that has it write to the drive for buffering or for better performance?

 

[STERKOFF]

203TB!!?! In 7 months? That's either a LOT of video-watching (they download to the storage drive as they are streamed), or your doing distributed-computing in the background (set the checkpoint interval to something larger, like 10 minutes), or, you're "mining", or have "coin-mining malware".

Or the SMART data is just FUBAR, somehow, or you bought a returned or server refurb SSD.

I'm guessing a smart error. Drive was new/unopened with no writes when I got it from Amazon. How many bytes would be written with say an hour of 4k video? Just curious...

 

[UsandThem]

I'm guessing a smart error. Drive was new/unopened with no writes when I got it from Amazon. How many bytes would be written with say an hour of 4k video? Just curious...

Should be around 7GB per hour for 4k: https://www.howtogeek.com/338983/how-much-data-does-netflix-use/

 

[STERKOFF]

What is really weird is my drive number 2 below has been in computer same amount of time and only shows 25 power on hours....


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CrystalDiskInfo 8.1.0 (C) 2008-2019 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/
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OS : Windows 10 Professional [10.0 Build 18363] (x64)
Date : 2019/12/02 22:55:22

-- Controller Map ----------------------------------------------------------
- Standard SATA AHCI Controller [ATA]
- Standard SATA AHCI Controller [ATA]
- Standard SATA AHCI Controller [ATA]
- Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller [SCSI]
+ Samsung NVMe Controller [SCSI]
- NVMe Samsung SSD 960 SCSI Disk Device
+ Samsung NVMe Controller [SCSI]
- NVMe SAMSUNG MZVKW1T0 SCSI Disk Device
+ Samsung NVMe Controller [SCSI]
- NVMe Samsung SSD 970 SCSI Disk Device

-- Disk List ---------------------------------------------------------------
(1) Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB : 512.1 GB [0/3/0, sq] - nv
(2) SAMSUNG MZVKW1T0HMLH-000H1 : 1024.2 GB [1/4/0, sq] - nv
(3) Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB : 500.1 GB [2/5/0, sq] - nv

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(1) Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB
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Model : Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB
Firmware : 4B6QCXP7
Serial Number : xxx
Disk Size : 512.1 GB
Buffer Size : Unknown
# of Sectors :
Rotation Rate : ---- (SSD)
Interface : NVM Express
Major Version : NVM Express 1.2
Minor Version :
Transfer Mode : PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 3.0 x4
Power On Hours : 11365 hours
Power On Count : 1594 count
Host Reads : 15710 GB
Host Writes : 19766 GB
Temperature : 35 C (95 F)
Health Status : Good (100 %)
Features : S.M.A.R.T.
APM Level : ----
AAM Level : ----
Drive Letter : D:

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 000000000000 Critical Warning
02 000000000134 Composite Temperature
03 000000000064 Available Spare
04 00000000000A Available Spare Threshold
05 000000000003 Percentage Used
06 000001EAF5FD Data Units Read
07 00000269B545 Data Units Written
08 00001EECC3BB Host Read Commands
09 00003EBACC39 Host Write Commands
0A 00000000107C Controller Busy Time
0B 00000000063A Power Cycles
0C 000000002C65 Power On Hours
0D 000000000059 Unsafe Shutdowns
0E 000000000000 Media and Data Integrity Errors
0F 000000000753 Number of Error Information Log Entries

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(2) SAMSUNG MZVKW1T0HMLH-000H1
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Model : SAMSUNG MZVKW1T0HMLH-000H1
Firmware : CXA74H0Q
Serial Number : xxx
Disk Size : 1024.2 GB
Buffer Size : Unknown
# of Sectors :
Rotation Rate : ---- (SSD)
Interface : NVM Express
Major Version : NVM Express 1.2
Minor Version :
Transfer Mode : PCIe 2.0 x4 | PCIe 3.0 x4
Power On Hours : 25 hours
Power On Count : 127 count
Host Reads : 3652 GB
Host Writes : 1690 GB
Temperature : 32 C (89 F)
Health Status : Good (100 %)
Features : S.M.A.R.T.
APM Level : ----
AAM Level : ----
Drive Letter : E:

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 000000000000 Critical Warning
02 000000000131 Composite Temperature
03 000000000064 Available Spare
04 000000000005 Available Spare Threshold
05 000000000000 Percentage Used
06 0000007221D0 Data Units Read
07 00000034D347 Data Units Written
08 00000528C989 Host Read Commands
09 000002C87896 Host Write Commands
0A 000000000047 Controller Busy Time
0B 00000000007F Power Cycles
0C 000000000019 Power On Hours
0D 000000000016 Unsafe Shutdowns
0E 000000000000 Media and Data Integrity Errors
0F 00000000033B Number of Error Information Log Entries

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(3) Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB
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Model : Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB
Firmware : 2B2QEXM7
Serial Number : xxx
Disk Size : 500.1 GB
Buffer Size : Unknown
# of Sectors :
Rotation Rate : ---- (SSD)
Interface : NVM Express
Major Version : NVM Express 1.3
Minor Version :
Transfer Mode : PCIe 3.0 x4 | PCIe 3.0 x4
Power On Hours : 1908 hours
Power On Count : 134 count
Host Reads : 4527 GB
Host Writes : 213796 GB
Temperature : 42 C (107 F)
Health Status : Good (100 %)
Features : S.M.A.R.T.
APM Level : ----
AAM Level : ----
Drive Letter : C:

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 000000000000 Critical Warning
02 00000000013B Composite Temperature
03 000000000064 Available Spare
04 00000000000A Available Spare Threshold
05 000000000016 Percentage Used
06 0000008D7BE6 Data Units Read
07 00001A192603 Data Units Written
08 00000C7AC72D Host Read Commands
09 00002AF7A355 Host Write Commands
0A 000000000B79 Controller Busy Time
0B 000000000086 Power Cycles
0C 000000000774 Power On Hours
0D 000000000017 Unsafe Shutdowns
0E 000000000000 Media and Data Integrity Errors
0F 000000000132 Number of Error Information Log Entries

 

[mikeymikec]

Two of the drives in my computer were installed new at the same time (Sam 840 PRO and WD Black 1TB), the WD Black has always had comically inaccurate power-on hours stats.