[dba-Tech] Firefox destroys SSD drives?

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Oct 13 18:04:56 CDT 2016


According to the following article Firefox can eventually destroy an SSD drive by continuously writing to the disk. The article goes on to provide a method and settings that should alleviate most of this problem:

https://www.servethehome.com/firefox-is-eating-your-ssd-here-is-how-to-fix-it/

This discussion only covers FF...it is undoubted that other browsers have similar features and therefore similar problems.

Jim 


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