For 5 months Spotify has badly abused users storage drives

[dlevere]

For almost five months—possibly longer — the Spotify music streaming app has been assaulting users' storage devices with enough data to potentially take years off their expected lifespans.

Reports of tens or in some cases hundreds of gigabytes being written in an hour aren't uncommon, and occasionally the recorded amounts are measured in terabytes. The overload happens even when Spotify is idle and isn't storing any songs locally.

The behavior poses an unnecessary burden on users' storage devices, particularly solid state drives, which come with a finite amount of write capacity. Continuously writing hundreds of gigabytes of needless data to a drive every day for months or years on end has the potential to cause an SSD to die years earlier than it otherwise would.

And yet, Spotify apps for Windows, Mac, and Linux have engaged in this data assault since at least the middle of June, when multiple users reported the problem in the company's official support forum.

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...torage-drives/

[xirtamehtsitahw]

And Spotify doesn't seem to care, or so it seems. Sad, but true, this is the case with lots of large companies. They don't care about their customers anymore. All they care about is the money they're getting from those customers, often while shilling out some sub-par product or even doing blatant damage to customers' property (as in this case).

[bungholio]

Doing constant read and write operations on a storage device and hundreds of gigabytes in an hour!!!!? WTF is up with them? That is a major unneeded thing and is just as bad as people making programs to dial phones to increase people's phone bills and all kinds of other similar things. That's as good as intentionally damaging my property, glad I don't use whatever the piece of garbage is if that is the case.