sp_trace_setevent
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa260314.aspx
17 Writes Number of physical disk writes performed by the server on behalf of the event.
Using Reads, CPU, Duration or Writes for query tuning with SQL Trace
http://blogs.sqlserver.org.au/blogs/greg_linwood/archive/2006/12/11/492.aspx Writes is the last of the major query performance measurements offered by SQL Trace. Whilst it provides some useful information about how many 8kb write a query performed, I rarely find this terribly useful when query tuning as there is little scope for much to go "wrong" with write characteristics. This is a very different picture to Reads because many factors can (& often do) cause query read behaviour to degrade (indexes, statistics etc).