If you're using Spotify's desktop application to listen to music, you'd better temporarily change your habit and listen to your favorite music from the Web or from a Spotify mobile app.
Several subscribers reported that its streaming apps services for Mac, Windows, and Linux write hundreds of gigabytes of data every day to users' hard drives, even when the software is idle and supposedly not saving locally, according to Ars Technica.
It's not clear why this is happening, but you should definitely avoid Spotify's desktop application at the moment, because the very frequent recording of data on your hard disk may shorten its life.
Even SSDs that do not have moving parts have a limited number of write-read cycles, and unnecessary Spotify recordings with tones of data can cause a decrease in performance.
Spotify in a statement to Ars Technica said it fixed the problem with version 1.0.42, which will be released soon if it's not already out now for everyone users.
