Every single Nvidia Driver update is writing tons of data to my SSD

[kensclark16]

I just updated my driver to the latest beta version and I noticed that right after it was installed, 0.2TB was wrote to my SSD. How do I know this? I use the Intel Toolbox to check my total write usage like every hour, lol. I am afraid that this will wear my SSD out really fast. Also, I know that the driver update caused it because the Windows 8.1 Pro Task Manager said the process was using 256MB/s on the disk.

 

[Steve-007UK]

I wouldn't worry to much, My ssd says i have writen over 3TB of data yet i never install anything to it lol

 

[JTristam]

I just updated my driver to the latest beta version and I noticed that right after it was installed, 0.2TB was wrote to my SSD. How do I know this? I use the Intel Toolbox to check my total write usage like every hour, lol. I am afraid that this will wear my SSD out really fast. Also, I know that the driver update caused it because the Windows 8.1 Pro Task Manager said the process was using 256MB/s on the disk.

Are you using laptop or desktop? By default the laptop chipset driver automatically downloads new or updated profiles for Optimus, be it games or productivity softwares (even browsers). You can disable this auto update feature by opening NVIDIA Control Panel -> Manage 3D Settings -> click "Manage updates..." and then untick the "Automatically check for updates" box. If you're using desktop then it's GeForce Experience instead of NVIDIA Control Panel, assuming you had it installed during driver installation (if using default installation option). If you have GE installed then go to GE then do the same (disable auto update).

 

[Maban]

The driver itself is most certainly not writing 200GB to your SSD. At most it's about a gigabyte (two maybe?) or so. ~220MB for the download, ~420MB for the extracted files and I'm assuming somewhere between 200 and 500MB for the actual installation. If you want to minimize the impact of the install, download it to a different drive and extract it to a different drive.

 

[Drone]

C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Installer2

Clean contents (don't touch folder itself)

 

[Maban]

C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Installer2

Clean contents (don't touch folder itself)

These are cumulatively acquired though as far as I can tell. They aren't all written at once. And even if they were, they certainly don't add up to 200GB. Useful info nonetheless. I didn't even know those were there.