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

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

#11

Post by kitsunesoba »

M1 Pro 16" 1TB/32GB:

    SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
    Critical Warning:                   0x00
    Temperature:                        33 Celsius
    Available Spare:                    100%
    Available Spare Threshold:          99%
    Percentage Used:                    0%
    Data Units Read:                    35,019,801 [17.9 TB]
    Data Units Written:                 16,172,066 [8.28 TB]
    Host Read Commands:                 792,786,606
    Host Write Commands:                270,657,694
    Controller Busy Time:               0
    Power Cycles:                       292
    Power On Hours:                     320
    Unsafe Shutdowns:                   13
    Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
    Error Information Log Entries:      0

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

#12

Post by CharlesW »

This is from a Macbook Air (M1, 2020, 16GB/1TB):

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

  SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
  Critical Warning:                   0x00
  Temperature:                        42 Celsius
  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    13%
  Data Units Read:                    788,079,439 [403 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 731,596,572 [374 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 6,353,571,120
  Host Write Commands:                2,866,603,247
  Controller Busy Time:               0
  Power Cycles:                       224
  Power On Hours:                     2,521
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   35
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
  Error Information Log Entries:      0

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

#13

Post by vagabund »

2020 M1 Air (8GB/256GB)

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

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)

Critical Warning: 0x00

Temperature: 34 Celsius

Available Spare: 100%

Available Spare Threshold: 99%

Percentage Used: 4%

Data Units Read: 181,700,939 [93.0 TB]

Data Units Written: 123,234,692 [63.0 TB]

Host Read Commands: 2,190,216,039

Host Write Commands: 1,482,884,502

Controller Busy Time: 0

Power Cycles: 159

Power On Hours: 1,480

Unsafe Shutdowns: 16

Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0

Error Information Log Entries: 0

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I don't really know how to interpret this but I've been getting consistent crashes once my battery hits around 25% charge and the widely reported "AP watchdog expired" error message. Battery capacity's now at 71% and dropping rapidly after sub 500 charge cycles. Couple months out of 1 year warranty. Any advice is appreciated, would hope I'm not just shit out of luck for such an expensive device after ~15 months.

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

#14

Post by daggersandscars »

Another data point: 2020 M1 MBA, 16 GB, 1TB. Mostly used for web browsing, email, text, some writing.

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

     SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
     Critical Warning:                   0x00
     Temperature:                        32 Celsius
     Available Spare:                    100%
     Available Spare Threshold:          99%
     Percentage Used:                    0%
     Data Units Read:                    115,962,722 [59.3 TB]
     Data Units Written:                 17,185,040 [8.79 TB]
     Host Read Commands:                 1,291,690,131
     Host Write Commands:                338,681,101
     Controller Busy Time:               0
     Power Cycles:                       193
     Power On Hours:                     316
     Unsafe Shutdowns:                   4
     Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
     Error Information Log Entries:      0

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

#15

Post by 1123581321 »

vagabund wrote: post #13

2020 M1 Air (8GB/256GB) === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 34 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 99% Percentage Used: 4% Data Units Read: 181,700,939 [93.0 TB] Data Units Written: 123,234,692 [63.0 TB] Host Read Commands: 2,190,216,039 Host Write Commands: 1,482,…

You have a bad battery and need a new one. Should be fine afterwards.

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

#16

Post by alas44 »

November 2021, macbook pro m1

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)

Critical Warning: 0x00

Temperature: 31 Celsius

Available Spare: 100%

Available Spare Threshold: 99%

Percentage Used: 0%

Data Units Read: 5,641,034 [2,88 TB]

Data Units Written: 5,080,733 [2,60 TB]

Host Read Commands: 133,355,019

Host Write Commands: 71,299,866

Controller Busy Time: 0

Power Cycles: 138

Power On Hours: 98

Unsafe Shutdowns: 6

Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0

Error Information Log Entries: 0

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

#17

Post by xavxav »

M1 Pro

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

  SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
  Critical Warning:                   0x00
  Temperature:                        28 Celsius
  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    0%
  Data Units Read:                    14,683,648 [7.51 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 15,448,997 [7.90 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 198,962,886
  Host Write Commands:                199,550,695
  Controller Busy Time:               0
  Power Cycles:                       172
  Power On Hours:                     196
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   15
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
  Error Information Log Entries:      0

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

#18

Post by erwinh » 

  SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
  Critical Warning:                   0x00  
  Temperature:                        34 Celsius  
  Available Spare:                    100%  
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%  
  Percentage Used:                    8%  
  Data Units Read:                    1,464,393,120 [749 TB]  
  Data Units Written:                 442,313,981 [226 TB]  
  Host Read Commands:                 21,452,008,572  
  Host Write Commands:                3,394,045,680  
  Controller Busy Time:               0  
  Power Cycles:                       288
  Power On Hours:                     2,173
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   18
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0 
  Error Information Log Entries:      0
Very much abusing my M1Max lately having it run some heavy data scripts & docker 24/7

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

#19

Post by jamamp »

M1 Pro 16" 500GB

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

    SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
    Critical Warning:                   0x00
    Temperature:                        34 Celsius
    Available Spare:                    100%
    Available Spare Threshold:          99%
    Percentage Used:                    0%
    Data Units Read:                    18,809,609 [9.63 TB]
    Data Units Written:                 18,091,004 [9.26 TB]
    Host Read Commands:                 431,191,695
    Host Write Commands:                334,856,144
    Controller Busy Time:               0
    Power Cycles:                       191
    Power On Hours:                     384
    Unsafe Shutdowns:                   15
    Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
    Error Information Log Entries:      0

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

#20

Post by alexjplant »

2020 M1 Air running whatever the latest beta macOS is. Not too shabby all things considered... I mostly do light dev work and music production (primarily live instrumentation so not too much in the way of sample-based plugins) so this kind of makes sense.

   === START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
   SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
 
   SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
   Critical Warning:                   0x00
   Temperature:                        26 Celsius
   Available Spare:                    100%
   Available Spare Threshold:          99%
   Percentage Used:                    0%
   Data Units Read:                    21,793,717 [11.1 TB]
   Data Units Written:                 13,227,049 [6.77 TB]
   Host Read Commands:                 307,014,870
   Host Write Commands:                219,603,100
   Controller Busy Time:               0
   Power Cycles:                       124
   Power On Hours:                     211
   Unsafe Shutdowns:                   6
   Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
   Error Information Log Entries:      0
 
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