Samsung SSD Usage..growing..why?

[jbee]

Samsung Magician correctly shows almost no growth in usage during my normal home routines. But...when I have to reboot, usually after a program install or Windows Update, the usage jumps.

I'm running a 950 Pro 1TB

For example, it went from 1.66TB to 1.70 TB on a reboot where nothing much had changed.

I've moved the indexing to a spindle drive, and now suspect the VSS files as I'm doing backups frequently.

But what else could be doing this?

I have the settings as max reliability,except for indexing set back on, rapid mode, op reduced to 28 Gig from the suggested 98, thinking that would improve things. It didn't.

 

[Imperceptible]

That's because it will only update the "Total Bytes Written" if you manually hit the refresh icon located at the bottom of the window, or close and re-open the program (which is what restarting obviously does).

 

[jbee]

Yes, now I see the circular arrow. That explains a lot, now I should be able to find the usage culprit.

What kind of usage creep are you seeing?

 

[Ketchup]

Yes, now I see the circular arrow. That explains a lot, now I should be able to find the usage culprit.

What kind of usage creep are you seeing?

Usage culprit? I don't understand your question. In the example you mentioned, Windows updated files.

 

[jbee]

It seems to happen at other times too...but since I was in effect flying blind I really wasn't getting a clear picture. I'll be able to do that now.
Thanks.

 

[Charlie98]

Not to sound argumentative, but... who cares? The idea of an SSD is to use it. It would be like complaining about writes on a spindle drive...

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I think you're looking at a change of 40GB in your example there.

I don't give these concerns much attention with my own Pro drive. Some test results I'd seen more recently suggest that these drives are capable of cumulative Peta-bytes.