diff --git a/components/spiffs/host_test/main/host_test_spiffs.c b/components/spiffs/host_test/main/host_test_spiffs.c
index 5dbf0ab0d2..a16a0256a6 100644
--- a/components/spiffs/host_test/main/host_test_spiffs.c
+++ b/components/spiffs/host_test/main/host_test_spiffs.c
@@ -195,7 +195,8 @@ TEST(spiffs, format_disk_open_file_write_and_read_file)
     // Generate data
     spiffs_file file = spiffs_res;
 
-    uint32_t data_size = 100000;
+    uint32_t data_count = 5000;
+    uint32_t data_size = data_count * sizeof(uint32_t);
 
     char *data = (char *) malloc(data_size);
     char *read = (char *) malloc(data_size);