Apparently the poster was reporting faulty findings, not just the faulty conclusion I was challenging.
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M1 activity monitor showing different SSD write reading than system terminal... Apple is hiding something
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Apparently the poster was reporting faulty findings, not just the faulty conclusion I was challenging.
You want to see details of your SSD? Install smartmontools from home-brew. My SSD (2017 15" MBP). Total of 262TB read and 227TB written.
Code:
sudo smartctl --all /dev/disk0
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [Darwin 20.3.0 x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number: APPLE SSD SM0512L
Serial Number: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Firmware Version: CXS5EA0Q
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x144d
IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x002538
Controller ID: 2
NVMe Version: <1.2
Number of Namespaces: 1
Local Time is: Fri May 7 11:24:54 2021 PDT
Firmware Updates (0x06): 3 Slots
Optional Admin Commands (0x0006): Format Frmw_DL
Optional NVM Commands (0x001f): Comp Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat
Maximum Data Transfer Size: 256 Pages
Supported Power States
St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat
0 + 6.00W - - 0 0 0 0 5 5
1 - 0.0400W - - 1 1 1 1 210 1200
2 - 0.0050W - - 2 2 2 2 1900 5300
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 35 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 21%
Data Units Read: 513,453,089 [262 TB]
Data Units Written: 444,934,986 [227 TB]
Host Read Commands: 6,627,709,565
Host Write Commands: 3,424,233,570
Controller Busy Time: 14,812
Power Cycles: 13,118
Power On Hours: 5,664
Unsafe Shutdowns: 108
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
No Errors Loggedoh you suspect it huh? on the back of the best longevity devices in tech ? iphone = best in class SW support by a mile , putting over performant SoC`s in their device also contributes to the longevity of the iPhone/iPads , we have iphone 6s and 7 in the family , still runs like a charm , the macs are robust as it can get and also lasts longer then their windows competition.
Apple has no reason to plan for obsolescence , they build devices that last , but they also know marketing very well and they get ppl to trade in for newer devices on a regular basis , but hey , you suspect it on the back of someone posting screen shots of data he does not understand ...... hope you are not doing any jury duty , as you seems to jump to conclusions on the back of zero evidence.
If i missed a /s at the end of your post , apology !
Notice how nowadays it’s never “hey, maybe I’m misinterpreting this data I don’t understand. Can someone explain the discrepancy” and instead it’s “hey, I have no idea how to read a man page, but here are some bogus interpretations that prove that apple is engaged in criminal fraud!”
Stupid internet.
Stupid internet.
Now, let me get this right. You think that Apple is deliberately designing their brand new systems based on their own processor to be less reliable and fail more quickly than older Intel based machines? And since they're basing their entire future sales on the new in house developed processors they are deliberately working to get a bad reputation and sell less in the future? Wow, that's some really faulty reasoning. I think exactly the opposite is much more likely given their history and simple logic. Why would a company do their best to sabotage their own reputation with a new product line? I get that you think it is to get people to buy more often. But they could easily have done this with Intel based machines as well years ago. Yet system reliability across the board is first rate with Apple products in general and very much so with their desktop and laptop computers.
This baseless hammering against the new M1 systems is getting hilarious. Can't wait to see the next crackpot theory. It really is entertaining to see what people can pull out of thin air.
This baseless hammering against the new M1 systems is getting hilarious. Can't wait to see the next crackpot theory. It really is entertaining to see what people can pull out of thin air.
So much this.
For some, it's a profitable business model. For others, it's just... I dunno, maybe just a sign of the times. Few seem to grasp the concept of trying to understand something *first* before throwing out a baseless accusation, or before forwarding around some alleged conspiracy that they read elsewhere.
Exhibit A:
Another chronic example is in tech blog article comments: attached to any favorable article about an Apple product will be accusations of the blog being secretly in Apple's pocket. On the same blog, any critical article about Apple will bring accusations of the blog being secretly in Samsung's or Google's pocket or whomever. It's really tiresome.