Comment by markhahn

why do you think this is a function of betas? or even of OS or app versions?

I guess you've been burned, or are worried about being burned, by some software that generated excessive writes? I think you need to describe that first, since this is a rare phenomenon.

which is probably why there isn't some kind of downdetector infra tracking it.

you know you can access smart counters on any OS, right?