Brave has become very sluggish lately

I’m 83% sure that Brave is doing something that my SSD doesn’t like. Here’s what I know:

  1. My SSD works fine when Brave is not running.
  2. When Brave is running, my SSD periodically becomes unusable.
  3. The only thing the SSD manufacture says could cause this if I’m writing very large amounts (50GB) of data (another cause is low disk space, but I don’t have that).

Others have reported similar issues in the past: