[xubuntu-users] 18.04 destroying my M.2 SSD

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I use Firefox, cache disabled, but I am only logged in to a new install
and have started no programs. Email is not even configured.

On 06/14/2018 03:52 PM, Teresa e Junior wrote:
> Em 14/06/2018 09:53, don subscribe escreveu:
>> My hdd light never stops blinking with activity, every 2 sec.  I logged
>> disk io with iotop for as much as 12 hours.  I was alarmed to see that
>> fstrim -av after 12 hours shows 211 Gb trimmed.  I wonder how long this
>> SSD will survive in that box?
>
> Do you use Google Chrome / Chromium / Opera / Brave, etc.? Chromium is
> a monster that forces disk spins with fsync() every single second:
> https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=52663
>