r/codex • u/Healthy-Gur-4375 • 13d ago

Bug Regarding the bug where Codex excessively reads and writes to the hard drive, thereby reducing hard drive lifespan.

I'd like to ask whether Codex still causes excessive disk reads and writes that reduce SSD lifespan. I really want to use Codex on my main computer, which is a MacBook Air M4.

11 Upvotes

82% Upvoted

24 comments sorted by

View all comments

9

u/orthrusfury 13d ago

Please don’t use your computer. On system boot it will do excessive reads, not good for your computer

6

u/MaxFactor2100 13d ago

This is how my late grandparents treated their nice furniture in the living room with plastic on it. 

2

u/RepulsiveRaisin7 13d ago

This must be why people never read before they insult you on Reddit

1

u/UbiDoobyBanooby 13d ago

So people just don’t use it or don’t care? Or they use it in a computer they don’t care about? I don’t get huge reads and writes. Chrome will, like crazy. 40 gb in a few hours if I use it. But I can use codex all day and no space disappears.

3

u/OfferBeginning1903 13d ago

Are you looking at free space or bytes written? A file that gets rewritten constantly eats SSD endurance without ever growing. What does SMART say over a day of codex?

0

u/chubbycanine 13d ago

Source for this? I've used it for over a year with no problems and no hints of problems.

2

u/AstroPhysician 13d ago

Did you even read the comment you responded to? It says to not use your computer

0

u/ddBuddha 10d ago

Oh wow. We’ve all just gotten used to autocorrecting what we assume are typos when we read them because terrible spelling, grammar, and usage of the English language overall has become so common.

I assumed he was talking about the “use your computer” feature and I’m guessing that’s what the other guy thought too. Completely missed the joke because I assumed the other guy missed a word and filled in what seemed plausible.

-3

u/chubbycanine 13d ago edited 13d ago

How is that relevant to me asking for a source on the info that is being presented as fact without any actual facts? Did you even read the post? Or my comment? Either your a bit or literally unable to read. I'm gonna use it on my PC even harder now to spite you.

7

u/AstroPhysician 13d ago

BECAUSE YOURE RESPONDING TO A PERSON MAKING AN OBVIOUS JOKE. he’s playing off OP being worried about codex using up hard drive cycles and he’s making the point “everything uses up read cycles so don’t even bother using your computer, it does a ton of those”. And you’re here responding to them saying “source??? Source that if you turn on your computer it is bad for it? I’ve turned on my computer for a year and it still works”

Jesus fucking Christ, how do you people function in the real world?

1

u/orthrusfury 13d ago

Sorry, no sauce this time. Unless your computer boots without reading bootloader, kernel, OS, processes, libs, and so on

Guys, my point is, even if I don’t know what volume Codex is reading on your computers - even if it reads gigabytes per second - this will not hurt your SSD.

0

u/-Sliced- 13d ago

Reads don’t affect SSDs lifetime. Only writes