Spotify generates junk data which can damage your computer’s storage – 99mac

During several months of the Spotify clients wrote junk data to the device storage, something that can potentially shorten the storage life.

The american teknikpublikationen Ars Technica now reports that Spotify mjukvaruklienter for computers suffer from a bug that generates large amounts of junk data. This leads to several gigabytes to be written to the device’s storage, even when the client is idle, which over time can reduce the storage life.

This is not a new phenomenon, users have pointed out the problem in Spotify’s official forums several months back and the problem has even attracted the attention of the social news site Reddit.

Spotify client on Mac, Windows and Linux can be worn on the solid-state devices in the past few months.

Ars Technica-the editors could reproduce the problem on computers with Mac OS and Windows as the operating system. Spotify-client wrote this 5 to 10 gigabytes of data to the internal storage in an hour’s time, even when the client not playing the music. When computers are left inactive for a whole day, was written over 700 GB of junk data to the storage.

the Bug should be fixed in version 1.0.42 of the Spotify client that are to be rolled out now. Even if the problem completely disappears with this update, it has worked on computers and storage devices over several months of time. Modern computers are usually equipped with a flash based solid-state storage whose memory cells can wear out in line with the number of writes.

These solid-state devices and their firmware-the software is equipped with features like “cleaning” the memory cells to reduce the wear and tear, but on potentially several hundred gigabytes of junk data is written to these devices daily toil that doubtless the life of the device. You should update your Spotify client on your computer immediately.