I've recently been trying to track the excessive writing going to my hard drive and it appears the culprit is Spotify. In the attached image I was listening to music for a couple of hours and Spotify has already written 15GB to disk. This is incredibly excessive and will kill drives over time. I've tracked nearly 100GB of writes in the course of a day if I'm using Spotify actively.
This has been mentioned before by others:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web-Player/Spotify-killing-my-SSD/m-p/1365378
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web-Player/Why-does-Spotify-use-such-a-ridicu...
Hey @firef,
We're closing this thread as we never received an answer from you. If you're still having the same issue, just give us a shout.
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