It is not the cache that causes the heavy IO. It is the SQLite DB at AppData\Local\Spotify\mercury.db AppData\Local\Spotify\mercury.db-wal See http://blog.scal

It is not the cache that causes the heavy IO. It is the SQLite DB at AppData\Local\Spotify\mercury.db AppData\Local\Spotify\mercury.db-wal See http://blog.scaleprocess.net/spotify-heavy-io-problem/ http://blog.scaleprocess.net/spotify-heavy-io-problem/ Besides that, a lot of times setting a diff location for your cache does NOT move the cache. I had to use a symlink.