Advice Request Bitdefender SSD writes

[Parkinsond]

If you have a good SSD

I don't

 

[Divine_Barakah]

I don't

I have a WD Blue SN580 512 GB
You won't believe how many times I reinstalled Windows on it. After a year and a half its health is 98%

 

[stonjean633]

I don't see this an issue. If you have a good SSD, it will take years before it dies. Just make regular backups and do not overthink it.

He got two issues here. 500MB might seem small,but for his Country/Location they have Monthly Data Limit and after that it throttles to almost Dial Up speed. Those updates accumulates easily.

Another thing is the SSD write.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

He got two issues here. 500MB might seem small,but for his Country/Location they have Monthly Data Limit and after that it throttles to almost Dial Up speed. Those updates accumulates easily.

Another thing is the SSD write.

BD does not download 500 MB worth of update. What he meant was when BD downloads an update, it rewrites the whole database again on the disk.

 

[RansomwareRemediation]

BD does not download 500 MB worth of update. What he meant was when BD downloads an update, it rewrites the whole database again on the disk.

Where did you get that from? That's false. In fact, Bitdefender consumes less hard drive than Eset, since it loads its definitions in ram with PHOTON tecnology.

 

[lokamoka820]

Where did you get that from? That's false. In fact, Bitdefender consumes less hard drive than Eset, since it loads its definitions in ram with PHOTON tecnology.

I really want to like BD, but my tests showed that it writes about 20 gigabytes within 2-3 hours after installation, and I can't give it a chance to improve itself for my machine in this case.

 

[RansomwareRemediation]

I really want to like BD, but my tests showed that it writes about 20 gigabytes within 2-3 hours after installation, and I can't give it a chance to improve itself for my machine in this case.

That is false, there is no AV that writes 20 gigabytes in 3 hours.

 

[lokamoka820]

That is false, there is no AV that writes 20 gigabytes in 3 hours.

Maybe my test was wrong, and maybe the installation process affected the account, but I heard about the same problem from other users, so I didn't look into it further.

 

[Parkinsond]

In fact, Bitdefender consumes less hard drive than Eset, since it loads its definitions in ram with PHOTON tecnology

Bitdefender is amazing; it do both, write half a gig on disk with each update (the downloaded size is small, but it creates a backup for the whole database with every update), and load database in RAM to consume the largest fraction after the browser.

 

[Parkinsond]

Maybe my test was wrong, and maybe the installation process affected the account, but I heard about the same problem from other users, so I didn't look into it further.

It's not wrong; the only AV to reduce the C drive by half a gig after update is B; never happened with MD, K, Avast, AVG, or even SEP with its large size updates.

 

[RansomwareRemediation]

Bitdefender is amazing; it do both, write half a gig on disk with each update (the downloaded size is small, but it creates a backup for the whole database with every update), and load database in RAM to consume the largest fraction after the browser.

fountain? I find it unlikely that AV creates a copy of its entire database every time it updates.

 

[Parkinsond]

fountain? I find it unlikely that AV creates a copy of its entire database every time it updates.

This is a good explanation, because if not true, then B will be categorized as something else.