Users of the application for computers of Spotify they have complained that this punishes your computers by continuously writing massive data to your hard driveseven when the application is stopped. The complaints started five months ago, when users started posting the problem on the Support forum from Spotify, in Reddit and on several other websites and services. The complaint claims that the Spotify application saves messy data on its hard drives when it runs in the background, writing 10GB every 40 seconds.
ArsTechnicaAfter reading hundreds of complaints from Spofity users, he was able to reproduce the issue on multiple Macs using the latest version of the desktop application for the world's most widely used music streaming service. Data writing takes place regardless of whether the songs have been configured to be stored locally or whether the music is playing. And, what is worse, this continuous writing of data can reduce the lifespan of storage drives, especially in SSDs.
Spotify could reduce the lifespan of hard drives
Spotify user Paul Miller compares this problem to a motor oil that is punishing a car engine:
This is a "major" bug that currently affects thousands of users. If, for example, Castrol oil reduced the life expectancy of your engine from five to ten years, I imagine most users would want to know and that fact "should" be reported.
Spotify responded to ArsTechnica saying that «any potential concerns have already been corrected»In version 1.0.42 of the application, a version that is already available. If you have not updated, do it as soon as possible.
