software to display what performs writes?

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Is there a utility that will allow me to see exactly what program is writing to an SSD?

I've set my system up for ssd but it seems to be doing a lot of writes still (the drive is c: )

need to find out what the writes are to find out what i've done wrong :D
 
Doesn't task manager display what's utilising the hard drive(ssd)?

Performance tab and select resource monitor in win 7
 
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The best tool is Microsoft's Process Monitor: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896645

This allows filters to be set so you can look for just file writes and to specific drives. I keep a filter set up for file writes to each drive so I can check for any really excessive writes. By default is also monitors network, registry access, thread activity and profiling events which you'll also want to disable (buttons on toolbar or filter page)

After capturing data for a while you can then use the file summary (Tools | File Summary) to see not only the number of bytes but the number of writes. SSD wear is also about the number of write operations, not just total bytes. Some applications make many tiny writes over time which is worse than the same number of bytes in fewer larger writes.

I've found a few applications that are really excessive (many GB per day) but in my case mostly software development tools. For an average PC I usually find anti-virus that is top of the list, but not enough to be a concern for modern SSDs.
 
What version of Windows? If 7 or 8, open Task Manager, go to the Performance tab, and click the Resource Monitor button. Then go to the Disk tab, and under Disk Activity you should see what is doing what.
 
getting an awful lot of

fastio_write C:\Users\(username)\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefox\profiles\m2s405rx.default\places\sqlite.wal

writing all the time, changed browser cache to temp (after giving up with dragon browser) but still lots of writes

cant work out what it is
:(
 
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