>At Google we were told to stop thinking about all this and as a result Chrome slams SSD by writing cached Youtube videos to disk .... except Youtube never reu

>At Google we were told to stop thinking about all this and as a result Chrome slams SSD by writing cached Youtube videos to disk .... except Youtube never reuses cached video data (not even when rewinding more than couple minutes to already watched spot in same video), it explicitly generates hashed requests with custom URL parameters googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire (~6hour shelf life) &range &sig &lsig. Heavy YT viewing results in wearing out your SSD by tens of gigabytes per day for no particular reason. This is just one small example of side effects from such brilliant decisions.