Spotify is recording hundreds of gigabytes of garbage data into the user's hard drive

Over the past 5 months or more, the application of streaming Spotify has " hacked " the user's hard drive by reading / writing a large amount of data.Reports show that the application has read / written hundreds of gigabytes, some cases up to terabytes, even when Spotify is still open but not playing music (idle).

This has caused the user's hard drive to reduce its lifespan, especially SSD hard drives that have a limited amount of write data. Writing hundreds of gigabytes of data every day for months or years will make SSDs reduce their lifespan quickly . It is known that this situation has been taking place since June this year in many operating system platforms such as Windows, Mac and Linux.

" This is a serious error affecting thousands of users. I think everyone must be aware of this, " said a Spotify user.

Normally, the application will record about 5-10 GB of data within an hour, even when music is not played. Users at RedDit, Hacker News, and Spotify's forum have all shared and warned people that there is a case where Spotify has continuously recorded 700 GB of data in one go.

Spotify has not commented on the incident yet. A comment said the bug will be fixed in the upcoming 1.0.42 update, but it is unclear exactly when Spotify will officially release the update. As such, users are advised to close the application until there is an official fix from Spotify.