Codex CLI, the free local AI-agent developed by OpenAI, quietly ruined your SSD!
Rui Fan (Apache Software Foundation) discovered that the software has been writing up to 640 terabytes of logs per year, which is way more than a typical SSD lifetime endurance. This may cause user account issues, data loss and hardware damage.
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Tip: make periodic backups of your files! ๐พ
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Codex SQLite feedback logs can write ~640 TB/year and rapidly consume SSD endurance
Update at Jun 23, 2026: the following 3 PRs are merged, it could avoid 85% logs(feedback from my codex), so let me close this issue. Thanks @jif-oai for the fix. #29432 (released in 0.142.0) #29457...1996fanrui (GitHub)
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