I’ve installed a Samsung SSD recently and have been keeping an eye on the total data written from the Magician dashboard (7.0.0.510). In doing so over the past few days I’ve notice it jumping about 20 GB a day when I would check. This seemed rather high, and consistent.
So to determine what processes were writing so much data I installed Process Explorer, which revealed that it was in fact Magician itself. The below screen shots were taken in roughly one minute intervals while the Magician UI was open. It was writing about 20 MB a minute, which is about 1.2 GB an hour. This occurs even with “Dashboard History Option” turned off in settings. Also, Magician shows minimal write activity when the UI is either closed or minimized and, but it’s process (and service) still running, and it’s system tray icon active:
Why a “reporting” tool would need to write so much data I’m unsure of, especially in light of the fact that reporting primarily involves reading and displaying values. Being that these drives have a limited life based on write volume (TBW), I find it rather peculiar that the proprietary reporting software is seemingly wasting valuable writing capacity. I was also unable to find any other logging history options to toggle (though haven’t dug deeper than the UI).
