Within three days, an SSD’s write amount reached nearly 3500 GB. I need to investigate where the problem lies.
Around April this year, my laptop displayed a disk failure warning on boot, prompting me to back up in time. Using DiskInfo software, I found that the built‑in 500 GB system drive had a total write amount of 400 TB, essentially at the end of its life. Yet the laptop had been used for less than two years. Obviously something was wrong; I was very angry at the time and couldn’t pinpoint any issue, so I ended up buying a new drive.
After that, because I was overly worried about this problem recurring, I wrote a PowerShell script that automatically records the disk usage every three days. Unfortunately, I didn’t set up any alert mechanism, so I only check it when I remember.
Today I happened to notice that the write amount had surged in the past three days.
This has left me extremely confused; I can’t determine whether it’s a system scheduling issue, a buggy piece of software, or perhaps my own mistake causing this. There is very little guidance available online. Fellow users, do you have any suggestions that could help me pinpoint where the problem lies?
I usually use WSL for some tasks, but not a virtual machine. I haven’t used any software that uploads or downloads heavily lately, so based on the current bandwidth usage, it would probably have to be constantly maxed out to cause this effect; if that were the case, I would likely notice
I think I may have found a clue. I tried digging through the Windows logs in Event Viewer for the past few days. Under the Windows Logs → Application section, I noticed that starting around 8:44 PM on the 25th, errors caused by XTUService began appearing in large numbers—roughly once every minute. This didn’t stop after I shut down and rebooted; it continued until about 10 AM on the 27th, when the errors finally ceased. To make sure this wasn’t a common occurrence, I looked back several months and found no similar spikes of errors.
A quick search of XTUService’s functionality turned up a few relevant keywords: ASUS, virtualization, high writes.
Continuing my search, I found a Reddit post that is almost identical to my experience (1 PB of writes over 462 days, whereas I’ve written about 400 TB total—roughly half of that). The culprit identified there is also XTUService:
At first I wasn’t entirely sure, but now it’s undeniable. The next question is how to deal with it. Only by rooting out the “insider” can I sleep peacefully.
I hadn’t completely ignored this program before; most of the time its daily total write volume stayed within my acceptable range, so I never investigated further.
I previously had a Tianxuan, and each time it would automatically install BIOS updates.
After the update, when it restarts the screen goes black; I have to cut the power and long‑press the power button to shut down, then turn it on again.
It’s broken, recently my computer had some issues and I was planning to switch to the Tianxuan Air, but this has made me lose confidence (though after reinstalling the system, there haven’t been any problems so far).
I’m looking for any other 14‑inch laptops with a 4060? Excluding Lenovo (currently using tb14+) and Asus.
I remember the last time Chia coin was popular was about four years ago, and I also wanted to get into mining, but I lacked a hard drive.