Magician Readings for 970 Evo Plus NVMe M.2 drive?

[userK5bvEaQ3BK]

Hi,

I have had a destop PC built for me which includes a Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe M.2 drive.

PC Spec's.

CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3400G

Board Asus Prime B450M-A

RAM Gammix D10 16GB  3200MHz DDR4

SSD  As above

HDD 2nd drive Seagate 1TB

O/S  W10 Pro

I installed the Magician Software. However the 'written' figures under the 'Drive Health' are not within keeping to what I was expecting.

The 'written' figure is now showing 433GB and I have only had the computer one week. The first time I ran Magician it showed 32GB written. It seems to jump up huge amounts when I do things like add drivers or a Windows Update etc.

Any idea's, or help on this would be very much appreciated.

Please see the add screen shots below:-

Todays reading.

Thanks for reading,

Chris.

[userK5bvEaQ3BK]

What a difference a day makes, in this case another 112GB and I've hardly done anything on the PC.

If I have posted this in the wrong category Admin please feel free to move it.

Chris.

[ddaniel51]

That's Windows 10 for you.  My 1TB 970 OS drive has 170 GB on it and has written 7.5TB so far.

I tend to buy the larger drives to take advantage of the increased caches sizes and sustained write speeds.

[userK5bvEaQ3BK]

Many thanks for your reply. I feel a little happier knowing I'm not on my own.

It could be a Windows 10 issue I agree, but it could also in my view as likely be the Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe M.2 drive software. I run a Samsung V-NAND SSD 850 Evo drive on my old PC (I have been for 4 years) and there is no problem with the "Written" information in Magician, and both PC's are on the W10, 20H2 version, OS Build 19042.662.

What software have you used to get a true reading of what's been written?

I tried using HWiNFO64 portable, but that gave me the same reading as Magician (see below)

Chris.

[userK5bvEaQ3BK]

Now over 600GB "written" according to Magician!

The new PC isn't even 4 weeks old yet.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Chris.