You won't get any argument from me there.
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Louis Rossman on soldered SSD
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Would also be a huge burden if you run a business and rely entirely on Macs throughout your workflow.
Regardless if Apple, AppleCare+, your insurance, or EU consumer rights is going to get you a new Mac free of charge, you'd have lost everything that hasn't been backed up to the cloud or local backup and face the potential hassle of having to wait on the new Mac to arrive (that maybe isn't even sold by Apple anymore on the day the SSD or any other soldered component dies).
Quite obviously the next step on the E.U.'s agenda after fixing Apple's Lightning mess.
probably, as the bulk of word processors automatically back up to the cloud, or are just located in the cloud already.
Apples iWork goes into iCloud by default.
Google Drive, Microsoft 365, all of those others are obviously cloud-based.
I’m an American and say it “saw-dur” (sɑː.dɚ) and “saw-durd” (or saa·drd).
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No. That would never work. The SSD is inextricably tied to the Secure Element on the logic board, where the encryption key is stored. No data can be recovered from an SSD that is separated from the logic board.
Also illogical. The word has 3 syllables.
This is what I'm saying; just encrypt the drive with keys like BitLocker does (In a considerably more secure way, granted)
Apple is returning my MBP today, it's the third time they have repaired it this year. 1st was the display, 2nd was the logic board, this time they suspect it was the SSD. The back and forth is getting old
We also say aluminum instead of aluminium. 😂
So do you think its even remotely conceivable that certain regions in the vast United States will pronounce words differently, including soldering?
Just to educate you, there are many different regional dialects here in the US. Depending on the region you're from, some words will sound quite a bit different.
But that doesn't take away the fact that computer makers soldering components on the logic board (or motherboard for PCs) is inherently anti-consumer and anti-right to repair.
Yes but by making the ssd and ram not replaceable means that if someone wants more ram/storage or wants to replace them they have to buy a whole new computer, which costs much more usually than just storage or ram, thus resulting in more profit for the manufacturer.
FYI it's pretty hard (no, basically impossible) to replace ANYTHING on a SoC, because everything is so tightly integrated and the tolerances are also very high, so you'd mess it up very easily trying to remove or replace ANYTHING.
I've had this account since 2008. I didn't make it just to post a rossman video.
That’s what they do, and they store the key in the Secure Enclave.
Exactly!! Are we really having this discussion about data loss in 2023? If you're doing "up to the minute" work on a Mac that would be catastrophic to lose in an SSD failure and NOT using Time Machine and DON'T have a 3-2-1 backup strategy in place then I really don't feel bad for you. Somewhere Steve is rolling his eyes.
Does Apple anywhere recommend backups?
Wait until you hear how the Brits say "Leicester".
-dan
ps I say, and have always said, "sod-erd".
Bitlocker uses the TPM by default. And the TPM is a chip on the logic board. The data on the SSD cannot be read without the TPM.
Apple makes it ridiculously simple to back up your files. iCloud Backup saves all of my files, photos, and music. iCloud backups make it possible to take a hammer to your computer, get a new computer, and restore from it without losing any files. You may have to reinstall apps, but your files will all be there.
Just in case, I have an external drive that runs TimeMachine every hour. I have never needed to use it when I've replaced my computer.
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Yeah, I never said it didn’t.
All I said was that a 20 something writing their thesis is more than likely doing it in a modern productivity suite and these days most of those are online/backed up by default.
Especially for high-schools and colleges, where most of your work has to be done on services that the school also has access to, usually Office 365 or Google Drive.
So the chances of some college student’s computer dying and them actually losing entire projects gets lower and lower as time goes on.
For the record, I’m on board with devices being as easy to repair as possible, until it starts to impact the actual experience of using the device.
I run it every couple of weeks on mine. I'm gonna need to get a bigger drive to back up my new one, I'm gonna have to resort to manually backing up the important stuff in the meantime.
But I mean, for just grabbing a cheap external spinning disk drive and plugging it in, it's nice. I wish the process were easier to force it to be HFS+ instead of APFS due to worse performance on spinning disk drives, but aside from this, I've had no complaints. It's about as easy as it gets.
yes
Quite frequently actually, especially if you have to deal with Apple Support.
They say over and over again to make sure your device is backed up.
If you use any of Apple’s beta programs, you’re warned to back up.
Plus iCloud and TimeMachine being built in.
You're correct on everything you mentioned on your comment, however it's closer to 10,000 writes per block. Enterprise-class drives might have even higher numbers.
Operating systems will definitely attempt to spread wear evenly across the disk via TRIM. You can generally retrieve SSD health / wear through some tools, I recently sold a 2017 iMac with factory-fitted SSD and it reported 98% health and I used that system A LOT.
I think the biggest risk to data is more electrical component failure or data / controller corruption. Keep your backups safe, folks! Time Machine really is a plug-in and forget solution.
This is not even remotely a new problem. Laptops get dropped, lost or broken in a variety of ways and it's always been this way.
There are a lot of great reasons for Apple's products to be more serviceable, sustainability being very high on the list.
But at this point if you're losing data, you're being reckless. Between cloud sync services like iCloud, Dropbox, Google -- and dead-simple Time Machine backups, it's easier than ever to maintain redundancy.