Suddenly my SSD became full of 4GB Magician files! I got a low disk warning.

My sager 8130 now has an SSD (Samsung 840 Pro - 512 GB). Its been installed for a couple of weeks. Just now, while using it, I got a low disk warning. I went to Explorer and checked Drive C properties. Holy cow! The disk is all Blue (full). There were tons of 3.99GB Magician temp files (in the root of C, which I deleted. The drive now shows 330 GB free and 98 GB used, which I believe is what it should be. Should I stop Magician from running at bootup? At 4GB a pop, it would take around 100 magician temp files to clog the HDD, but I don't think there were even 50 listed in Explorer. Only 6 showed up in the Recycle Bin after I deleted what I noticed in Explorer and rebooted. Would like to know if basically I just shouldn't be using Magician.

EDIT: I'm back down to 63GB used, after emptying recycle bin and getting rid of the hiberfil.sys file which I didn't expect to be on there, as I had run the command "powercfg –h off" a couple weeks ago. I also took Magician out of the Startup group, but left the app installed.

 

no idea but my HD on my desktop was filled yesterday also randomly, I never found the files, I just restored from a previous back up.

 

just found 1300+ files (mostly zero byte) in the C:\Users\Dave\AppData\Local\Temp folder, with nearly all of them beginning with dda[number]. They were all dated in the last 2 days. any ideas of what would put tons of zero byte files in that folder, have "dda" in the file name? I'm getting paranoid now! I just installed a free space widget (and I hate desktop widgets) ...

 

No idea whats causing that but you'll want to find out and stop it soon. SSD do have a finite about of time you can write to each cell. While that number is in the millions you'll want to limit any unnecessary writes its doing.

 

Yes, I figured that is the case and I'll keep a close eye out for both the free space and crazy-numbers of temp files. Beyond that, is there a utility that monitors unusual or excessive writes?

EDIT: I could take a peek every now and then (if i think of it) at Resource Monitor>Disk writes, but it would be nice if there is a small utility that monitors writes that we could white list processes so that only things getting flagged in the future are new/seldom used/problematic processes.

 

Actually depending on the drive it's about 1000-3000 per cell.

 

windows keeps resetting my custom pagefile sizes to windows managed size of 8196. how can I reduce pagefile size and stop windows from overriding my setting? I'm putting in a legit setting of 400-6000

EDIT: i just set it to NO PAGEFILE, rebooted, and it's holding OK.

 

The Magician software has a Performance Optimization feature. This writes those files that fill the drive but then it should delete them. This PO should not happen automatically. Check your settings there and update to the soon to be released version 4.2 What version do you have now? Stopping it from starting with Windows may have just been a temporary solution.

Review of 4.2 Performance Optimization page.
Samsung Magician 4.2 First Look - New SSD Toolkit adds Rapid Mode - Disk Management | TweakTown

 

this happened again to one of my other systems. The pagefile and hybrinate file were huge. no idea is going on.

 

Contact Samsung, they do reply. May be a bug they may not know about.

 

Yup, been doing that with my SSD as well, no pagefile, no hibernate since these SSDs boot faster than hibernate does. But weird big large empty files, thanks for heads up, I'll keep a lookout for em.

 

With no pagefile you just have to be careful not to run out of ram.

 

True, but I haven't yet, doing the things that I usually use my Sager for.

 

Just a follow-up report on setting Pagefile to OFF. I've had no issues with anything in the two weeks (I use my laptop several or more hours per day). About the only thing I havent tried yet, that I used to use this laptop for is to rip and encode DVD's. I'm not inclined at the moment to rip any more of my DVD's...