Most M1 Macs appear to have a serious SSD wear defect

Post by rasz » Tue, Feb 16, 2021, 7:45 PM UTC

marcan_42 wrote: post #26

supermatt wrote: post #25

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I just assumed that this was some deep "app nap", where its effectively swapping the entire state of an inactive app to disk. That would likely explain why the usage is scaling with available RAM, rather than storage space. I get that its a much higher wear than we would traditionally expect, but given I have 8GB of RAM that seems near inexhaustible., maybe it just a different approach to memory management, permitted…

So, going back over the numbers and with a 256GB 3% user confirmed on Twitter, it seems like the ratings are: 2TB model: 5000TBW 256GB model: 2000TBW That means that, at the worst known rate that David had (150TB in 2 months), a 256GB drive would reach lifetime writes in ~2 years. That's still way too fast, so this is still something Apple needs to adjust if it is happening to people (and given what he told me about…