Multi-Drive Tracking
Select and monitor multiple physical drives in the same session, including supported HDDs, SATA SSDs and NVMe SSDs.
SB Storage Utility
SB TBW TRACKER
Drive Write Session Tracker
Track how much data is written to one or more drives during a user-controlled session. Monitor individual drives, combined totals and current write activity from one focused Windows utility.
Track Writes Across Your Storage
SB TBW Tracker observes drive-write activity during the exact period you choose. Use it during file transfers, installations, updates, backups, content creation, testing or everyday workloads.
Drive Write Tracking Features
A practical interface for observing individual and combined storage-write activity.
Individual Sessions
Start and stop tracking for individual drives without interrupting other active drive sessions.
Combined Totals
View the total amount written across all selected drives while retaining separate results for each device.
Live Write Rates
Observe current write activity using automatically formatted B/s, KB/s, MB/s and GB/s values.
Drive-Life TBW
View available lifetime-write information when it is exposed by the drive, controller, storage path and Windows.
Logs and Screenshots
Save session results and capture either the application or complete desktop for documentation and comparison.
One Session, Clear Results
Select the drives you want to watch, one a few or all. You can select them individually or start tracking all of them. TBW is measured at the start of opening the app, Watch the totals add up when using the refresh button.
- Select one or more detected physical drives.
- Start all selected drives or track them individually.
- Perform the desired Windows or application workload.
- Watch session-written totals and live write rates.
- Stop tracking and save the results if desired.
- Click Refresh Drives to see session totals after stopping a session.
Useful Across Many Workloads
You manually control the session lengths. The app is light enough for long sessions.
Software and Game Installation
Observe drive writes produced while installing applications, games, updates or downloadable content.
File Transfers and Backups
Compare the reads and writes generated by copying, moving, synchronizing or backing up data.
Content-Creation Workloads
Monitor session writes caused by rendering, recording, transcoding, caching or other production activity and every day use.
Storage Testing
Record how much data is written during storage evaluations, controlled tests and performance workloads and save the results.
Application Behavior
Observe writes produced during the session between start and stop. Refresh the drives to view totals for all drives within that session.
Endurance Observation
Compare session totals with available lifetime-write information to have a better way to keep track of multiple drive usage.
Release Candidate
Download SB TBW Tracker v1.5.1.0 RC
The current release is a signed, portable Windows application. No installation is required. Download and run it.
Signed and Verified
Compatibility and reported values depend on the storage device, firmware, controller, driver and information exposed through Windows. Unsupported lifetime-write values are displayed as N/A.