The mobile app of Spotify. – Denis Closon/ISOPIX/SIPA
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Listening to music via Spotify hurts hard drives equipped with flash memory and by extension to all embedded memory and memory cards of our smartphones. In effect, to force to write every day dozens or even hundreds of gigabytes in size on these discs, the software developed by the giant in the streaming music alters indeed the life of the latter.

SSD, new hard disks to flash memory, are affected

Alerted by users, reporters from Ars Technica have analyzed the phenomenon. In an article published on the Internet, these explain will be seen that the software of Spotify wrote 5 Gb to 10 Gb per hour. It is a lot. Especially for new types of hard disks to flash memory as SSDS.

If they are faster, more stable, quasi-insensiblesaux shock compared to hard disks trays mechanical, they have a limited life span. At Samsung, the SSD 850 EVO is guaranteed to write 75 terabytes of data. This does not indicate that it will falter beyond this limit, but that its capabilities could be adversely affected.

Spotify has released an update to its software the 14 November

however, one month of writing at a rate of 10 Gb per hour, this would yield 10 x 24 x 30 = 7.2 Tb of data written to the hard disk. In a month, Spotify would decrease, therefore the life expectancy of the SSD of 10% and calculated Ars Technica. And what is valid for the flash memory of the SSD, then so is the embedded memory in tablets and smartphones-specifies the magazine.

The service of streaming music was a bit slow to respond to this accusation documented but has released a patch for its software on November 14, regarding the more than 40 million subscribers around the world. It is highly advisable for owners of SSD drive to do the update.

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