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Kamil
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Please look at my question before I get blocked again

After about 2 months of trying to fix my questions, contributing and finally very short conversation with one of moderators I got rid of question ban.

Moderator that helped me suggested that I should put my next question on meta and see people feedback before I put my question on superuser.

I have question related with SSD.


Title: How can I measure how much data I write daily?

I would like to run few experiments and see how much data is being written on my disk when I do specyfic tasks (programming, running virtual machines, working with databases, audio editing etc.).

I want to use that data to estimate SSD lifespan and decide how big SSD I really need to avoid killing SSD in 1 year. I have read somewhere that average user writes 20GB/day and that value may be used to estimate SSD lifespan, however I am probably not average user.

I know that Windows Performance Monitor exists and there is "Average bytes / write" counter or something similar, but... is this really good idea to count written bytes?


Can I post it without risk of being downvoted?

Kamil
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