{"id":680831,"date":"2025-07-21T06:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fix-incoming-for-metamask-bug-thats-slowly-killing-solid-state-drives\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:30:43","slug":"fix-incoming-for-metamask-bug-thats-slowly-killing-solid-state-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fix-incoming-for-metamask-bug-thats-slowly-killing-solid-state-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix incoming for MetaMask bug that\u2019s slowly killing solid-state drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 15px;width:240px\">\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMDUvMDE5NmFiYTktZDJhMC03YzkwLWE3Y2UtMjUxYWJiYjhlZWM4.jpg\" class=\"type:primaryImage\">\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Consensys says it\u2019s aware of a small number of MetaMask users reporting \u201cunusually high disk activity\u201d and will be issuing a fix very soon.<\/p>\n<p><p>Consensys, the blockchain firm behind MetaMask, has confirmed it will be \u201cimminently\u201d releasing a fix for its MetaMask browser extension after users reported it has been writing hundreds of gigabytes of data per day into their solid-state drives, potentially shortening their lifespan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Cointelegraph, a Consensys spokesperson confirmed there has been \u201cusually high disk activity\u201d affecting certain MetaMask users.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more recent reports came from a user under the handle ripper31337, who <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ct-non-breakable=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MetaMask\/metamask-extension\/issues\/33879\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"null\">said<\/a> in a GitHub bug report on June 24 that after a fresh install of the MetaMask extension on Chromium-based browsers, such as Chrome, Edge and Opera, they discovered it was continuously writing data to the solid state drives (SSDs) in the background without user interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMN63nwsw68G3Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" >General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/metamask-bug-wearing-out-solid-state-drives?utm_source=rss_feed&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" >Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consensys says it\u2019s aware of a small number of MetaMask users reporting \u201cunusually high disk activity\u201d and will be issuing a fix very soon. Consensys, the blockchain firm behind MetaMask, has confirmed it will be \u201cimminently\u201d releasing a fix for its MetaMask browser extension after users reported it has been writing hundreds of gigabytes of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":680832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-05\/0196aba9-d2a0-7c90-a7ce-251abbb8eec8","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74894,133064,117,4976,34286],"class_list":["post-680831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-blockchain","tag-metamask","tag-business","tag-social-media","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}