Something Writing to SSD

maklabouhlel · 19 Aug 2018 at 11:52

I have a strange problem with one of my computers running Windows 7. It is exclusively used for checking emails and occasional youtube videos. I was abroad for a few weeks and when I remotely connected to the computer, I noticed about 10-20gb of data being written daily to the Samsung 840 pro ssd even though nobody is using it. About a year ago, the writes were 5tb and today they are 55tb. System restore has always been disabled. What could be causing this?

Specs:
Windows 7
Pentium G4600
4gb ddr4
samsung 840 pro 128gb ssd

maklabouhlel · 20 Aug 2018 at 12:40

Today 40gb have been written.

MagicBoy · 20 Aug 2018 at 12:45

Check in tomorrow for another thrilling installment.

Seriously, we're not psychic. You need to run something like SysInternals Process Monitor to work out what's causing it.

maklabouhlel · 20 Aug 2018 at 13:55

MagicBoy said:
Check in tomorrow for another thrilling installment.

Seriously, we're not psychic. You need to run something like SysInternals Process Monitor to work out what's causing it.

Will do.

andy_mk3 · 20 Aug 2018 at 13:55

maklabouhlel said:
Today 40gb have been written.

Strange, they never mentioned it in the news.

But yeah it could be anything!

maklabouhlel · 20 Aug 2018 at 14:03

andy_mk3 said:
Strange, they never mentioned it in the news.

But yeah it could be anything!

I have no idea how to find out what's writing to the ssd hence the post. I thought this was a good place for guidance not sarcasm.

FlyingScotsman · 21 Aug 2018 at 18:52

I had this and used a neat program to find out what was writing to the disk, it showed me and allowed me to stop the daily writes.
Tree size utility
https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

Donnie Fisher · 31 Aug 2018 at 18:05

What are you using to see that data is being written? Can’t that then tell you what is dong that ?

As above you need to have some utilities to watch the processes running and see whats active.

maklabouhlel · 31 Aug 2018 at 18:11

I think it was done by some software running in the background (image garden) associated with my canon printer/scanner. It went away after I uninstalled it.