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Windows 7 SSD unexpected behavior / frequent write activity

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Mar 15, 2026432 views
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My PC had an auxiliary issue which caused the hard drive light to stay on. While investigating this (seems to be related to a HDD which likes to drop off the bus at random times) I noticed my SSD encounters frequent albeit small write activity. After a lot of digging around, I finally noticed in Re…

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Fix for: Windows 7 SSD unexpected behavior / frequent write activity

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I would definitely move logging on to magnetic media, or at least not your SSD. One reason is indeed that Flash memory has a limited number of read/write cycles. Though I believe the Intel SSDs are understood to be of the better SSD drives. I think …

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