Codex SSD Endurance Crisis

Codex SQLite feedback logs can write ~640 TB/year and rapidly consume SSD endurance Issue Codex is continuously writing a large amount of data to the local SQLite feedback log database: ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite-wal ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite-shm On my machine, after about 21 days of uptime, the main SSD has written about 37 TB. Process/file-level checks show Codex SQLite logs are the main continuous writer. That extrapolates to roughly 640 TB/year. On a 1 TB SSD, that is about 640 full-drive writes per year. Some consumer SSDs are rated around 600 TBW, so this could consume roughly a full drive's warranted write endurance in less than a year.

A screenshot of a technical issue report warns that Codex SQLite feedback logs are continuously writing huge amounts of data to an SSD. The punchline is the absurd extrapolation: a 1 TB consumer SSD could supposedly exhaust its rated write endurance in under a year. People send this as a reaction to software logging too aggressively or unexpectedly wearing out hardware.

• @dev_meme / 8158 2026-06-22