Disable Cache disk to avoid ruin (and memory cache)

[trimechee]

Hello,

"Chrome and Spotify are writing over 150GB per day to my SSD."

"At the rates I'm clocking I'm actually probably closer to this group that is showing upwards of 100 GIG (yes, ONE HUNDRED GIG) of writes to my SSD PER DAY - just from leaving Chrome open even if I run the awesome extension (and BTW about the ONLY thing anyone has come up with to indicate helps this at all by sleeping tabs via the "Great Suspender" extension). "

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=176727

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/54fft5/chrome_and_spotify_are_writing_over_150gb_per_day/

a user seems to have found a solution to avoid the wear of SSD and HHD and huge disk writes of chromium but I don't know if these flah work with the current version, another user said that the excessive storage writes date of chromium is due to cookies to save the state of cookies even in inactive state so should we disable cookies to save our SSDs ?

"I was finally able to fix the heavy disk I/O activity (while idle, and ultra heavy hdd kill while loading pages) by adding the following command line arguments in shortcut:

%pathtoyourbrowser% --profile-directory=Default --disable-cache --disk-cache-size=0 --disk-cache-dir="Z:"

These commands should disable any kind of disk cache except for streaming multimedia - with no noticable speed diff. So the main reason why chrome eats up HDD for me was disk cache - and does so on every version on every variant with any setting in Chrome flags. There is a high chance that your chromium browser variant will not apply these commands on newer versions, however choosing an advanced browser with implemented setting for disk cache location will ensure that cache is not stored (see 360Chrome cn browser option in attachment and i think Slimjet browser also have it, just specify non-writeable location for cache storage). HDD activity while idle and loading heavy pages (example music. torchbrowser. com) in task manager down from 50% HDD to 3-4% (like in FF but FF is still lower I/O both in load and idle and while streaming multimedia). You could do the same with --incognito trick but then your visited history would never be saved.

Hope this helps someone save his HDD/SSD.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=401391#c7

disable memory cache may be a good ideo to make browser faster but we cant't disable momory cache :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69286753/how-do-i-disable-chromes-memory-cache-without-devtools

It will be great if Thorium Browser gives us an effective option to completely disable the cache disk and even the memory disk, maybe it can cancel the excessive session store and speed up the noteooks that have an old HDD and save the SSDs!

Thanks a lot !