Ever since BETA we've been reporting extremely high hard drive usage on this project, as it does not obey BOINC limits. It writes every time it finishes a calculation, and as each work unit contains several dozen calculations, and it finishes them incredibly quickly, we're talking about a file that can save itself several times a second.

Early in the stress test, I opened my Samsung Magician software on my relatively new 860 EVO 2TB SSD to track writes.
I started with just under half the drive used for file storage and 6.6 TB already written. Then I left my computer alone, to not taint the measurements or lower its performance.
As of the morning of April 29th, I've reached 7.6 TB.

This is on Windows 10 with a 1070 Ti running a single task at once.
A three generation old card, and not the strongest one at that, was able to use this project to generate more writes than the size of every other file on the system put together over two and a half days.

At this rate we can void my warrenty (5 years or 1200 TB) before it would otherwise expire, especially when I start using my computer for personal use again on top of BOINC.

At least my storage is new, and at least half of it is empty. And at least I knew to look.
While I'd happily set my SSD on fire if it meant rapidly advancing COVID research, I'm sure there are contributors out there whose SSDs will expire earlier than anticipated, and out of warrenty, without their consent. Remember, plenty of top contributors aren't on the forums at all, and last they checked, World Community Grid had no adverse impact on their devices. That's changed.

Nobody should be told that to avoid a temporary WCG bug, they should buy a different hard drive or run their desktop off a new stack of RAM until the application is updated.

I know lowering the writes is on the WCG "to do" list.
Can we get it moved somewhere closer to the top?