Your web browser is ruining your SSD
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 6:34 pm
https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is ... to-fix-it/
They have a workaround for Firefox. Stay tuned for one for Chrome. No one except Kevin uses IE/Edge so it isn't an issue.
After about ~10 min of uptime, Firefox is wining the "most data written" award with > 100 MB written. Second place is some MS Outlook background process with less than half that (probably retrieving all my email for the day). This could be more of an issue if I left my desktop on all the time, but I don't.
This has probably been going on for a while, my lifetime writes are much closer to my lifetime reads than they should be. Use Process Explorer to see per-process writes:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sys ... ssexplorer
I expect the browser vendors to change the implementation of their recovery features in the next few months.
They have a workaround for Firefox. Stay tuned for one for Chrome. No one except Kevin uses IE/Edge so it isn't an issue.
After about ~10 min of uptime, Firefox is wining the "most data written" award with > 100 MB written. Second place is some MS Outlook background process with less than half that (probably retrieving all my email for the day). This could be more of an issue if I left my desktop on all the time, but I don't.
This has probably been going on for a while, my lifetime writes are much closer to my lifetime reads than they should be. Use Process Explorer to see per-process writes:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sys ... ssexplorer
I expect the browser vendors to change the implementation of their recovery features in the next few months.