Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

Edit: My user folder was created May 26, 2022. So 5 months.

Basically I was completely unaware of this problem to start with.

I'm a generalist, and so typically:

- have Blender open doing some 3D modeling, then forget to close

- make some music on Ableton with hundreds of tracks and plugins

- designing a UI on Sketch

- Davinci Resolve is open cause I'm color grading a shot I just rendered

- After Effects is open cause I'm compositing something

- Atom or VSCode or sometimes both are open cause I'm writing some code for Blender (creative coding) to render online, or for anything else code-related, etc. etc....

- oh and Chrome is open with hundreds of tabs cause I'm researching a bunch of stuff + watching videos.

I understand that I don't need to have all these apps open at the same time, but typically that happens for 2 reasons, either 1. I forget to close, or dont want to close just yet or 2. I'm working on a single project that's using all these apps.

I'm a very very very heavy user. I like my computer to be able to handle me doing stupid things like this. Anyway it's good that I'm now aware of this, will make sure to not try to exceed the RAM my computer is capable of, but I honestly see it as a design flaw and less my own 'irresponsibility'.

I do see this as a temporary computer though until I somehow make enough money to buy a much more powerful one. Will make sure to get an M1 with the highest TB drive then.

    === START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
    SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

    SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
    Critical Warning:                   0x00
    Temperature:                        27 Celsius
    Available Spare:                    100%
    Available Spare Threshold:          99%
    Percentage Used:                    6%
    Data Units Read:                    509,334,138 [260 TB]
    Data Units Written:                 394,959,651 [202 TB]
    Host Read Commands:                 4,719,463,111
    Host Write Commands:                1,312,261,606
    Controller Busy Time:               0
    Power Cycles:                       178
    Power On Hours:                     938
    Unsafe Shutdowns:                   9
    Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
    Error Information Log Entries:      0

    === START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
    SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
    
    SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
    Critical Warning:                   0x00
    Temperature:                        43 Celsius
    Available Spare:                    100%
    Available Spare Threshold:          99%
    Percentage Used:                    24%
    Data Units Read:                    2,572,188,062 [1.31 PB]
    Data Units Written:                 1,431,628,344 [732 TB]
    Host Read Commands:                 24,927,069,158
    Host Write Commands:                5,308,198,627
    Controller Busy Time:               0
    Power Cycles:                       283
    Power On Hours:                     3,605
    Unsafe Shutdowns:                   37
    Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
    Error Information Log Entries:      0