Write Impact of Rainmeter

[Aethrios]

Hey ya'll, I'm in the process of moving to an exclusively SSD-based storage system in my computer. I'm aware of some concerns about excessive writing to the drives degrading their lifespan, and although the drives I've purchased are rated for quite a significant number of terabytes written before they're liable to start encountering problems, I was curious how much constantly running rainmeter actually contributed to writing against a disk?

Normally I would be under the impression that it's a negligible amount, but when I check my rainmeter log I see a few events popping up every second or so, which made me curious how many thousands of events it's logging over the course of a given day. (note, these events are largely related to using regexp substitutes which have an odd number of parenthesis, which rainmeter thinks is a problem, while in actuality they are escaped so it works properly)

[jsmorley]

Hey ya'll, I'm in the process of moving to an exclusively SSD-based storage system in my computer. I'm aware of some concerns about excessive writing to the drives degrading their lifespan, and although the drives I've purchased are rated for quite a significant number of terabytes written before they're liable to start encountering problems, I was curious how much constantly running rainmeter actually contributed to writing against a disk?

Normally I would be under the impression that it's a negligible amount, but when I check my rainmeter log I see a few events popping up every second or so, which made me curious how many thousands of events it's logging over the course of a given day. (note, these events are largely related to using regexp substitutes which have an odd number of parenthesis, which rainmeter thinks is a problem, while in actuality they are escaped so it works properly)

In general it should be very little. Errors or warnings are not to "written" to a physical file unless you have "Log to file" turned on in Settings.

[Aethrios]

Excellent, thank you. I appreciate your quick response.

Loving the new Shape meter by the way, it really is a lovely feature to have access to!