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NVME writes gigabytes of data for minutes on idle

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So this NVME of mine(A440 Cardea Teamgroup 1TB 700TBW,OS installed) is 2months old and since I installed it in my build in the first weeks dropped from 100%health to 97 in matter of days or 2 weeks.I tought this is a software bug and It turns out to be.Now it stopped dropping health % but I see that it writes for example 2GB writes increase for only starting my pc and staying idle.Even if I didn't started my system , and it stayed whole day long working just on idle without being used then It just gains these GB of writes while doing nothing :( What program should I use to see where this writes come from ? I have unallocated 200GB , turned off the system page file size(because I have enough ram to not use it (32GB RAM) ,it's 80% full, not like 100% or somthing...TRIM is enabled and everything I can think of that may decrease the health of the drive but now It just started writing gigabytes of data for doing nothing. Any guess what is happening ?

Right now it gained another 1 GB of writes for only watching facebook video live. And now another 1 , (2 gb of writes for watching 40minutes video)


Here is the software utilities that I use and here is the data today:

It was 5500 GB and now its 5510 just for couple of hours since I booted the pc for today , is this normal ?
 

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Could something have updates going on on the background? 3% loss of drive health in two weeks sounds worrying though.
 
Could something have updates going on on the background? 3% loss of drive health in two weeks sounds worrying though
I windows update my system regularly but I always put it on pause when updating finish if there is one.The other thing I can think of is my Steam and the game Squad that I play which doesn't get so much updates at all.The other thing I use is my opera GX browser.Nothing unusual.While everything is turned off and only stays at Idle already wrote 10GB of data for just watching 1 facebook video live and nothing more on the background.
Update just now: 5117GB written , +7 gb since my last reply here 1 hour ago...
 
What does the task manager say?
 

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Go to Task Manager -> Information -> Right click the column title, Select Column -> I/O Writes, then you'll see which process is doing all those writes.
 
Go to Task Manager -> Information -> Right click the column title, Select Column -> I/O Writes, then you'll see which process is doing all those writes.
I can't find the Information tab ,where is it supposed to be ?
 
What happens here, is there any software with high disk activity?

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I can't find the Information tab ,where is it supposed to be ?

Details.

ALso System Volume Information, do you have like system restore enabled or something? I can be that the system is continually making a backup of itself.
 
What happens here, is there any software with high disk activity?

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Nothing interesting I see in mine , here it is:

Details.

ALso System Volume Information, do you have like system restore enabled or something? I can be that the system is continually making a backup of itself.
I don't have system restore enabled . Just checked yesterday and it was turned off by default or I turned it off some time ago.
 

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Nothing interesting I see in mine , here it is:
Do you have a second monitor where you could keep the task manager open and watch it from time to time if there's some unusual disk activity?
 
Do you have a second monitor where you could keep the task manager open and watch it from time to time if there's some unusual disk activity?
I used to work on 2 monitors but now I use only 1 because I don't need second monitor for my needs anymore.
 
I used to work on 2 monitors but now I use only 1 because I don't need second monitor for my needs anymore.
Damn, would help on monitoring, unless you use a windowed browser for a while and have the task manager open.

(having two 4K monitors kicks ass, no going back from this. :D)
 
Damn, would help on monitoring, unless you use a windowed browser for a while and have the task manager open.

(having two 4K monitors kicks ass, no going back from this. :D)
I use computer since I was 7 years old(2007) and just this year I got my first high resolution monitor which is 2560x1440 170hz).Until couple of months ago I used 1080p monitors on 60hz, I felt reborn after jumping from 60 to 170hz :D ,Can't imagine 2x 4k monitors but they would cost as much as my whole PC so yeah... :D
 
Did you go to Details to see the total number of writes?

"Go to Task Manager -> Details -> Right click the column title, Select Column -> I/O Writes, then you'll see which process is doing all those writes."
 
my 990 Pro, a couple SN850Xs and MP 600 PRO XT all dropped by up to 10% after a year and a couple % in the first few weeks (my 990 Pro is at 97% after 2 months)
both critical errors and integrity errors are 0 on your drive. looks fine to me...
 
You're the second person which seems to be having issues like this.
My 2½ year old Kingston KC3000 is at 99% (almost 19 TB host writes), my two year old Soldigm P44 Pro is att 99% (OS drive and over 22 TB host writes) and my Corsair MP600 Pro is at 100% health (also about two years old and only 7 TB host writes).
It almost feels like there's a firmware issue on some drives that just eats up the drive health, as clearly someone else in this thread is having similar issues.
 
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You already have another thread relating to this.

 
You already have another thread relating to this.


Please use your existing thread.
 
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