SSD Reads and Writes exceeding 20GB
Has anyone else noticed extreme spikes in the number of reads and writes made to their SSDs while playing Inquisition? I'm seeing ~20GB of writes and ~30GB for just a two hour play session. This is h...
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Curiously, I am now seeing normal values in both programs I have been using to monitor this (SSDReady and Process Explorer). Writes and reads have both gone from 30GB per hour down to ~500MB. There was a minor Origin update today, I'm wondering if that had something to do with it.
Yesterday in Process Explorer, Origin actually had far more writes (50GB) than Dragon Age Inquisition (7GB). I had reinstalled the game that day however and assumed that was the reason. Today I'm showing just 12MB and 2MB for each respectively.
My thought now is that there may be some particular trigger that causes an extreme misallocation of resources sometimes but not others. That would explain why some people check their read/writes and go, "What are you talking about, it looks fine" while others clearly see huge fluctuations.
can you please explain how you are able to see the reads and writes to the drive for those of us who are not as tech saavy?
how you set up the filters, and such? Thank you, very much, in advance. 🙂
Sure thing!
The first program I tried was SSDReady, which is free: http://www.ssdready.com/ssdready/
In SSDReady, you just select via checkbox which drives you want to monitor and then hit Start. You'll see the counters start to run, and "Total Writes" and "Total Reads" are primarily what you'll be looking at. It'll also calculate a guess for approximate SSD life: I would ignore this, as it seems to be extremely pessimistic. Recent research is showing modern SSDs to be much more resilient than this program would suggest. That said, we still definitely do NOT want a constant 30GB/hour written to the drive.
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The other is Process Explorer, which lets you monitor the activity of all processes running on the computer: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
This one's a bit more complex. What it's giving you is a list of processes currently running on your computer, and you can sort the columns by clicking on them to find out which processes use the most resources. You'll need to right click on any column and manually tell it that you want "I/O Read Bytes" and "I/O Write Bytes" shown. You can then sort by I/O Write Bytes to find out which programs are writing the most data to your disks. Note that this program does NOT specify which drive is being written to, so if you have multiple drives this won't tell you how much is being written to the SSD vs. other drives.
Oh and with this one, the totals shown will be for however long the process has been running, even if Process Explorer wasn't on during that time. So don't be shocked if you see big numbers for processes that have already been running for hours or days.
fantastic, awsome, KUDOS, +1
Thank you!
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