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Codex has been eating your SSD
For weeks. Through a logger nobody opted into.
The bug: TRACE-level SQLite writes hammering ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite around the clock. One dev measured 37 TB written in 21 days.
Annualized - 640 TB/year.
A typical 1 TB SSD is rated for 600 TBW. That's your entire warranted lifespan burned in under 12 months.
OpenAI shipped fixes in 0.142.x on June 22 - cut writes by ~85%. But the third PR only landed in 0.143.0 alpha, and r/codex is still filling up with the same reports weeks later.
One user: Samsung 990 Pro, rated 600 TBW, dead at 60.
Another: SSD failed at 3% of expected lifespan. Another: 0.5 TB written every single day.
If you run Codex 24/7:
- Update now
- Check SMART (smartctl or CrystalDiskInfo)
- Any wear already logged is permanent
Hardware consequences from software bugs won't be rare anymore.

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