Why does my OS drive have so much more read/write bytes?

[charred elm]

(win10)

I have a few SSDs, and I noticed that my OS drive has 25TB read and 93TB write, while my other drives are around 5-10TB for both. I got them around the same time.

I got this PC around start of 2022, if that matters for timeframe

[minor agate]

page file/many programs will write thing to drive all the time

[charred elm]

is it normal for the OS drive to be written to around 10-20x and read from around 2-5x than normal?

and like i said, start of 2022, so around 4 years for 90TB written

[minor agate]

eg system writing around 150kb/s for me

[charred elm]

obviously it depends how and hwat i use my pc for but idk i feel like it's pretty normal, i don't do like videoediting or anything disk heavy like that

[minor agate]

so over 1 year if thats the avg is 4500TB

[charred elm]

yes, i do have like a constant 1-2% on this drive when i check task managerit's like a few blips of 1-1000KB every other second or so

[minor agate]

if 24/7

[charred elm]

that's way too much lol

it's a samsung 980 pro 1TB, so the warranty covers 600TB total bytes written

i guess it would be their estimate of lifetime

so like theoretically i'm around 1/6 of the way there :/

[restive canyon]

In most scenarios the time limit on a ssd warranty will expire long before it wears to death

600TBW is only the lifetime they will 100% guarantee

Past that it starts dropping from 100%

The average could be 1000 for all we know

[raw dragon]

Yes, absolutely. Complex software that reads from / writes to disk, like an OS, is going to do this nearly constantly while it's running. My main OS drive is now 3 years old and has 115TB written to it.

At this rate, it will take me ~10 years to reach ~400TB written, which is still ~200TB under the 600TBW / 5 year warranty threshold.