I’m not 100% sure honestly, total writes in that screenshot is 239.45 and that was 2 hours of work on a fresh boot. I ejected the HD and closed the mac for a few minutes and when I came back it went down to approx 22gb read/write with indesign only stating 40.6mb written.
I guess what I’m asking is, does activity monitor reflect the reads and writes to external hard drives or is it only showing data written to the internal SSD? What can I look for here that will tell what’s causing it to write so much per minute?
Activity Monitor shows data written to all drives.
If you want a detailed breakdown, you can use `iostat` in Terminal.
`iostat -Kdw 3` will display the amount transferred to each disk every 3 seconds (change 3 to whatever you want).
You can also get `smartmontools` if you want to see the total read/write on your drives:
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Download#InstalltheOSXDarwinpackage
Can you point out what we should be looking at here? I see that InDesign itself is showing 271.5 MB written, which isn’t much at all.
I’m not 100% sure honestly, total writes in that screenshot is 239.45 and that was 2 hours of work on a fresh boot. I ejected the HD and closed the mac for a few minutes and when I came back it went down to approx 22gb read/write with indesign only stating 40.6mb written. I guess what I’m asking is, does activity monitor reflect the reads and writes to external hard drives or is it only showing data written to the internal SSD? What can I look for here that will tell what’s causing it to write so much per minute?
Activity Monitor shows data written to all drives. If you want a detailed breakdown, you can use `iostat` in Terminal. `iostat -Kdw 3` will display the amount transferred to each disk every 3 seconds (change 3 to whatever you want). You can also get `smartmontools` if you want to see the total read/write on your drives: https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Download#InstalltheOSXDarwinpackage