{"slug": "openai-codex-bombards-ssds-with-needless-write-operations-costing-millions", "title": "OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions", "summary": "OpenAI's Codex AI model is causing excessive write operations on SSDs due to a clumsy logging implementation, leading to millions of dollars in unnecessary costs. The issue stems from the model's inefficient data storage practices, which disregard cost implications.", "body_md": "### MOST POPULAR\n\n[AI](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/ai)\n\n-\nai and ml\n\n#### OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions\n\nClumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost\n\n-\nDATABASES\n\n#### 21,000 Oracle jobs vanish amid Big Red's big bets on AI\n\nAnnual report reveals workforce fell from 162,000 to 141,000 in a year as company pours billions into datacenter expansion\n\n-\nDEVOPS\n\n#### AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime\n\nSuitable for running untrusted code, AI agents, or any long-running task\n\n-\nsystems\n\n#### Datacenters dip a toe back into waterborne computing despite obvious challenges\n\nFloating or sub-surface bit barns are all the rage, but unlikely to compete with multi-gigawatt sites\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### OpenAI: Yoo-hoo, look over here, we do that security stuff too!\n\nA plethora of pwn-prevention, including a 'Patch The Planet' pledge\n\n[Infosec](https://beta.theregister.com/security)\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks\n\nPLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### Microsoft patches failed to fix on-prem SharePoint, which is now under zero-day attack\n\nPLUS: China upgrades smartphone surveillance tools; Ring eases anti-snooping stance; and more\n\n-\nBlack Hat and DEF CON\n\n#### DEF CON Franklin project enlists hackers to harden critical infrastructure\n\nVoting village reports have been so successful, says Jeff Moss, that the whole of DEF CON will now be included\n\n-\nSecurity\n\n#### EQT buys majority share in Swiss cybersecurity biz Acronis\n\nWent at equivalent of $3.5B+ valuation for entire firm, though portion sold not specified\n\n-\nMalware Month\n\n#### Ten years since the first corp ransomware, Mikko Hyppönen sees no end in sight\n\nOn the plus side, infosec's a good bet for a long, stable career\n\n[FOSS](https://beta.theregister.com/tag/FOSS)\n\n-\n#### Blast from the past as GIMP 0.54 is revived in Flatpak form\n\nRetro-computing fun for the nostalgic with first (and last) release to use Motif instead of GTK\n\n-\n#### Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'\n\nMore Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too\n\n-\n#### France's digital sovereignty push is struggling to escape the Microsoft gravity well\n\nNextcloud rollout shows locally controlled storage is one thing; getting users off Office is quite another\n\n-\n#### History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system\n\nWhen a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'\n\n-\n#### Netflix wiz creates app to slash AI bills, then open sources it\n\nProject Headroom could save you big money, too\n\n-\n#### OpenBSD 7.9 arrives, a diamond in the rough proud of every sharp edge\n\nSixtieth release adds more cores, delayed hibernation, and basic Wi-Fi 6 without losing its ascetic streak", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-codex-bombards-ssds-with-needless-write-operations-costing-millions", "canonical_source": "https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/23/openai-codex-bombards-ssds-with-needless-write-operations-costing-millions/5260402", "published_at": "2026-06-23 20:50:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 00:07:29.604869+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Codex"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-codex-bombards-ssds-with-needless-write-operations-costing-millions", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-codex-bombards-ssds-with-needless-write-operations-costing-millions.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-codex-bombards-ssds-with-needless-write-operations-costing-millions.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-codex-bombards-ssds-with-needless-write-operations-costing-millions.jsonld"}}