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 some users’ SSDs.
According to CoinTelegraph, which received comment from Consensys, the company that developed the MetaMask crypto extension, some users have experienced “unusually high disk activity” when using the app:
“While browser extension wallets do regularly write state to disk, which is expected behavior, we’ve taken note of a recent observation shared by a small number of MetaMask users who reported…
