A crypto wallet browser extension has been quietly wearing out some user SSDs at a rate of 5 MB/s: ‘That’s about 500 GB per day!’
There are many things that have kept me from joining the crypto hive-mind up until now: mild scepticism, lack of knowledge, confusion, laziness. I never pegged SSD longevity as being on that list, though. Until now, that is, because one popular crypto wallet extension is apparently writing an inordinate amount of data to and from…