Firefox appears to be killing SSDs faster.

[icebags]

Doesn't look like a new report, but probably not many people are aware of this.

The other day , when checking TBW for my 1.5yr old on crystaldisk, I was shocked that it as showing 7+TB. Even though I don't use virtual memory and firefox is set to use GBs of RAM cache, which I use everytime.

After some monitoring and internet search, it appears firefox writing few GBs of data eveyday in system SSD. and RAM cache thing is just some buggy stuff.

Read :

discourse.mozilla.org/t/regarding-firefox-and-heavy-disk-usage/106293

 

[shreeux]

I am using rarely...how to avoid?
Delete all those files?

 

[omega44-xt]

7TBW in 1.5 years doesn't look too bad.

My 1TB Aorus Gen4 SSD is 2.5 years old, has 39TBW (rated for 1800TBW). I have been using Firefox for about 1.5 years & it is my primary SSD for gaming. For reference my secondary SN570 is 1 years old & has 6TBW (used for storing some games) while not being the primary drive for apps or games.

Once upon a time I had an Intel 660p with 200TBW endurance. Even with that assuming 40TBW in 2.5 years, it will take another 10 years to hit its endurance limit based on my usage.

So don't worry too much IMO

 

[icebags]

I am using rarely...how to avoid?
Delete all those files?

if you are not scoring high tbw then doesn't matter. as long as you have 30% or more free space in drive delete wont do much.
can you check with crystaldiskinfo, how much did you write.

7TBW in 1.5 years doesn't look too bad.

My 1TB Aorus Gen4 SSD is 2.5 years old, has 39TBW (rated for 1800TBW). I have been using Firefox for about 1.5 years & it is my primary SSD for gaming. For reference my secondary SN570 is 1 years old & has 6TBW (used for storing some games) while not being the primary drive for apps or games.

Once upon a time I had an Intel 660p with 200TBW endurance. Even with that assuming 40TBW in 2.5 years, it will take another 10 years to hit its endurance limit based on my usage.

So don't worry too much IMO

thats without using virtual memory. and, while reputed ssds survive higher writes, some cheap ssds cant bear as such.
i can guess some people watching HD stuff on 4/8gb ram systems and complaining their ssds did not last long.

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