Did I get a bad example of a refurb? I thought these were machines that were returned by people within 2 weeks (or do refurbs also include people's trade-ins?), but the refurb I received today has 2% of its SSD used up with a ton of read and writes, and 3544 power cycles, how can someone had have powered it on and off 3544 times?
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Bought a refurb M1 Mac mini from the Apple refurb store, diagnostics say it has 3544 power cycles?
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It's somewhat hard to say how much usage the device got from this. That said, with 101 power on hours, probably not that much. But I wonder if power cycles for the SSD can be considered to be 1:1 with system power cycles, 3000 cycles with 101 hours usage seems to say the answer is "no". So it may be reporting cycles as putting powering off the SSD hardware much like putting a HDD to sleep.
Not all refurbs are going to be returns. Some will be repairs where the original buyer got their unit swapped out so engineering could take a look, lack of repair parts, etc. There isn't enough usage on this one to likely be a trade in.
As for the TBW number, it seems to more be like someone who tried to put it through paces as a content creation machine before deciding not to keep it.
Not all refurbs are going to be returns. Some will be repairs where the original buyer got their unit swapped out so engineering could take a look, lack of repair parts, etc. There isn't enough usage on this one to likely be a trade in.
As for the TBW number, it seems to more be like someone who tried to put it through paces as a content creation machine before deciding not to keep it.
Perhaps it grabbed junk data. I highly doubt a Mac mini has been powered on/off over 3000 times. Not even with the most stringent testing,
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Everything about those numbers is weird. The 2% used with only 3 TBW makes no sense. I’m at 2% used in my 18 month old M1 MacBook Air and I’ve written 56 TB. My power cycles is at less than 600.
I’d seriously consider returning it. Something seems very off with that mini.
Yeah, I've decided to be on the lookout for another in the refurb store, this one just seems off. I've updated to the latest OS and ran the test again, got the same results.
Gross, Apple should at the very least add a new SSD and recycle the old. Not entirely bothered by the power cycles unless the PSU has suffered from it.
I doubt the power cycles is a problem but it is part of the weirdness in the stats.