FAO Spotify users with ssd

[neil_g]

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/239268-spotify-may-killing-ssd

That's a stupid bug capable of reducing the life of your drive..

 

[mbscad]

Would this bug not reduce the life of a spinning platter also?

 

[ancient_mariner]

Would this bug not reduce the life of a spinning platter also?

Not in the same way. An SSD memory location has a distinctly finite number of writes before it stops working. It might also be an SSD specific bug.