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    iPad Air Do factory resets wear out the storage chips on Apple devices?

    I had read somewhere that continuously rewriting data on an SSD will wear out the number of write cycles it has and cause it to fail. I reset my new iPad Air so I could restore it from an iCloud backup and get access to my Google Authenticator, but I couldn't, so I reset it again and set it back...
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    Check if "new" hard drive is actually new and unused.

    Hey all, I am buying "new" drives, but have read where folks would discover their "new" drives had been used before by looking up the read/write cycles or hours used. What app/utillity can we use on our macs to check if a drive has already been used. I googled the heck out of this inquiry and...
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