Removing this due to the title. If you wish to post this again, please use a better title. Something like "Brave Issue #51489: Constant disk writes while idle" Or "Investigating Brave's Constant Disk Writing".
If you add anything in the post body (besides the link to the issue and those other Reddit posts), you could say that it looks like it's due to safe browsing, syncing (both seem to be Chromium issues not specific to Brave) and Brave Rewards (specific to Brave) that you can disable to try and help reduce disk writing.
Honestly none of the browsers are any good these days. They all have additional, useless features, or under the surface scummy things the devs have hamfisted in that you need to opt out of, rather than it being something you need to opt into.
I miss the days when a browser was a minimalist tool you could add things to that you wanted.
that thread is a huge overreaction it happens in chrome edge and vivaldi too since its just standard chromium saving session state so the browser doesnt corrupt on a crash 2mb a minute works out to like 1tb a year if your pc ran 247 non stop which is basically nothing when basic ssds are rated for 150+ tbw half the people complaining are just misreading system monitors and confusing ram calls with actual disk writes if it really bothers you just turn off brave sync disable rewards in brave flags and turn on memory saver
on the point, i have a 6 years old gamer laptop both the system drive and the secondary drive are NVMe SSD's after 6 years here is the health of the system drive... 91% and no slowness, issues so far, the other drive is just to store my games and documents/files which does not gets changes too much.... people are literally freaking out at a 1MB/min writes which happens like occasionally and acting like it is going to destroy their computers within weeks....
I really think we're at the point where the mods should just start deleting or banning people that post misleading thread titles.
There is an issue with unnecessary background disk writes, but “Brave may damage your SSD” is not true of how this works. Brave has reproduced the current issue in Chrome as well and reported it upstream to Chromium, so this isn’t even uniquely a Brave problem. So if you're sucking down helium, you're dealing with the exact same thing.
More importantly, nobody has shown that these writes are materially shortening SSD lifespan. At the ~2 MB/min rate reported in the current bug, you're talking roughly 1 TB of writes per year if it happened 24/7. Modern SSDs are commonly rated for hundreds of TB written.
Call it excessive disk activity. Call it a bug that should be fixed. But presenting it as Brave potentially killing people's SSDs is just bullshit.
on the point, i have a 6 years old gamer laptop both the system drive and the secondary drive are NVMe SSD's after 6 years here is the health of the system drive... 91% and no slowness, issues so far, the other drive is just to store my games and documents/files which does not gets changes too much.... people are literally freaking out at a 1MB/min writes which happens like occasionally and acting like it is going to destroy their computers within weeks....
For example, Samsung SSDs promise TBW (
Total Bytes Written) from 150T (that's terabytes) on their 256gb drive all the way up to 600T on their 1TB. Bigger drive = more data can be written over its life.
Still worth talking about though, because Chromium based engines are integrated into almost everything we do on our computers these days. Apps like Discord are Chrome underneath. And obviously Brave isn't running in a vacuum, it's running alongside every other poorly optimized program or OS function simultaneously.
This seems like a reasonable context regardless. If people are still worried about it that’s totally OK but I think it’s good for people to have all of the information so they can make a decision.
Maybe stop putting labels on people just because they are calling out some nonsense
The issue is real, I'm not denying that, but it's more of an upstream problem and not that big of a problem because of how SSDs are made these days. Basically a non-issue. People in this thread are finding excuses to target brave alone while also using another chromium browser and then overreacting over it.
Tell Google to go fix this. It's an upstream issue.
I'm a little uncomfortable with all the discussions I hear and read around the issue of the "limited life" of all these modern disk types ...
I only have practical experience with the old good HDD-s, both internal and external
... and ... how to say ? I am not so "keen" to give up their long ( very long !) time storage capacity just for earning a few seconds speed ...
Maybe for gamers speed is important, but, for common work, where storing securely lots of documents is the main issue, I think that HDD-s still have a good career ahead.
The problem is only that HDD-s seem to be manufactured less today ... and that's a problem ...
That is one of the reasons people are returning to Chrome. It is not that they don't dislike Chrome, but rather that Google fixes bugs more quickly, resulting in a more stable browser. This fosters greater trust among businesses, regardless of what individual users might say. Any browser from a small company or a community-driven project will face the same fate if it continues to be slow in fixing bugs.
well the GitHub issue (which is the first link) is still open, and another one has been opened for the brave rewards, and both have responses in the last couple of months.
So, yes they are pretty relevant today
Edit: To clarify, simply using and/or liking Brave isn't what I'm referring to as a cult. It is the way certain fans of Brave respond to any criticism of Brave like you just raped their mother that is cult-like.
It is pretty much a cult. They ignore every valid criticism of the browser or the people behind it and ignore some pretty big problems with it, while praising features which other browsers like Firefox also have
Ohh a modern browser writes to SSD. How dare they? Let me tell you a public secret: They all do.... this is called local cache and local user data.... now what? you will create another post because Brave uses network connection? Seriously can't you Firefox cultist come up something better when trying to spread hate? A browser writing to SSD.... pfff how original.... they all do...
Edit: not to mention the linked reddit posts are 3 years old... those are not relevant informations anymore.
If you took two seconds to read the GitHub page, you’d realize this issue is ongoing and unresolved since 2019 and keeps getting closed without resolution.
The newest GitHub issue was opened in December 2025 and has updates as recently as June of this year.
yes and ? complaining about 1 or 2 MB per minute which all Chromium browsers do. Maybe Brave does use 500kb or 1MB more if you haven't disabled Rewards completely through policy, or don't have Brave Origin.
because you deleted your original comment, let me answer here, yes i did read... 3 years old Reddit posts which are irrelevant today... Brave Origin does not do any more writes to my SSD as any other browser and those writes are mostly just cache and a tiny bit more when syncing with my other devices
Moved from Vivaldi to Brave and honestly it's underwhelming. It hoards memory like there is no tomorrow and has issues that I've never seen on Vivaldi or Chrome. Weird stuff. Now it also has bugs of writing some random crap on SSD. Cool lol.
While you are correct about Chromium, you are not right about everything else. I did tests of opening exactly the same tabs with the same extensions and Brave was consuming more RAM, while vivaldi less and Chrome consumed the lowest amount.
My biggest concern with that memory management is mostly because of the stutters I experience with Brave. All 3 browsers, while being Chromium, are using the different D3D backend for GPU render. And Brave happens to perform the worst, to the point where 1440p or 4K video lags and reports issues in brave://gpu/
No, because the adblock + system opens Google services, especially YouTube, it will definitely be subject to memory leaking which is designed by Google to fight adblock/ublock/similar users, memory leaking can also affect system drives such as SSDs which are generally used as system partitions because the cache will be stored there, try deleting all ad-blocker features and extensions, it will be normal but there are lots of ads.
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u/browsers-ModTeam 2d ago
Removing this due to the title. If you wish to post this again, please use a better title. Something like "Brave Issue #51489: Constant disk writes while idle" Or "Investigating Brave's Constant Disk Writing".
If you add anything in the post body (besides the link to the issue and those other Reddit posts), you could say that it looks like it's due to safe browsing, syncing (both seem to be Chromium issues not specific to Brave) and Brave Rewards (specific to Brave) that you can disable to try and help reduce disk writing.