Adjust This Setting Before Firefox Wears Down Your SSD Drive

Firefox browsers are constantly writing large amounts of data to SSD drives, sometimes at higher values than the ones recommended by their vendors for daily writes.

According to the tech experts from ServeTheHome, a Firefox browser in its default configuration can write between 10GB and 30GB per day to SSD drives, depending on the number of opened tabs and windows. http://www.msfn.org/2016/09/27/adjust-setting-firefox-wears-ssd-drive/


Source: https://www.wilderssecurity.com/thr...ore-firefox-wears-down-your-ssd-drive.391018/

what do you think of this guys?

 

Well ... even at 30GB/day and assuming the worst performer on the SSD Endurance Experiment that means the drive will crap out after 64 years. Ok, so there's other stuff that writes to the disk, but even if Firefox/Chrome takes up a quarter of that ... meh.

Hmm ... something else; the value seems to be based on I/O writes, which includes writes to RAM. All that aside, Firefox does appear to have an unhealthy obsession with writing to disks. This is my Opera v12 passively open for an hour with 30 tabs and Waterfox (x64 portable Firefox) with one tab for 10 minutes:

Spoiler: Process Explorer - IO writes vs disk writes

 

I use Firefox with innumerable (>50) tabs open and my 8 month old 1TB Sandisk X400 thinks it is 1.12% worn. This projects to 60 years until 100% worn. I don't anticipate keeping the computer and SSD for that long. Lower capacity SSDs may wear faster.

John

 

I don't use firefox.

Tired of having to always use IE to view the page properly, multiple times per session.

 

Interesting. I've been trying to figure out what keep writing to my SSD even when I'm not doing anything and while task manager shows a couple svchost processes as culprits, firefox, when active, tops the list.

Now just need to figure out what these svchost processes are really doing.