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M1 Mac Users Report Excessive SSD Wear
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Those numbers are fine (I'm assuming they're accurate - so this is worst case). Even drives from 5-6 years ago are fine for several petabytes on a 250-500 GB drive.
15TB over 2 months = only 270 TB (1/4 of 1 PB) over 3 years. i.e., at that rate it would likely take you 10-20 years to wear out the drive. At which point the capacitors on your motherboard, etc. are likely end of life/worn out and the machine has been out of support for 3 years - and even if you could replace the drive it would likely be on a different interface. Try buying an ATA (not a typo) SSD (or even hard drive) today for example.
Short version: SSD reliability is fine these days, stop stressing about it. RMA it if it breaks. If it doesn't break, no problem.
You should be backing up your data anyway - if you aren't, you're screwed if your machine is stolen, etc. - irrespective of hardware issues.
15TB over 2 months = only 270 TB (1/4 of 1 PB) over 3 years. i.e., at that rate it would likely take you 10-20 years to wear out the drive. At which point the capacitors on your motherboard, etc. are likely end of life/worn out and the machine has been out of support for 3 years - and even if you could replace the drive it would likely be on a different interface. Try buying an ATA (not a typo) SSD (or even hard drive) today for example.
Short version: SSD reliability is fine these days, stop stressing about it. RMA it if it breaks. If it doesn't break, no problem.
You should be backing up your data anyway - if you aren't, you're screwed if your machine is stolen, etc. - irrespective of hardware issues.
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DriveDx has an independent implementation of NVMe SMART support. And DriveDx supported NVMe before smartmontools.
As proof you can check the history of the "NVMe support" page on smartmontools official website -> table "NVMe support in the different OS" -> row "OSX 10.10.3+ native NVMe support":
1) only DriveDx was mentioned but not Smartmontools https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/NVMe_Support?version=20
2) then support was added to smartmontools too - https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/NVMe_Support
And on the whole, your statement is an oversimplification, almost like arguing that macOS is just a fancy GUI for open source FreeBSD.
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You said your team spent 100 hours working on it. That would've permanently burnt the info into memory. I worked on a DDoS incident around the same time and can still recall everything from memory down to the Cisco 7206VXR model without referring to notes.
... because Apple now has to utilize resources to see if this actually is a thing, because of the reason I already listed. Just because a cow bolts doesn't mean a wolf is nipping at their hoof. Apple will take the time to see if this is teh dumb, or really an issue. If it's not an issue incompetent, irresponsible people will make it an issue to avoid personal financial responsibility, so mostly it doesn't matter if it actually is an issue.
Also, I would point out the entire "Apple throttled muh iPhone" debacle was started by one incompetent idiot that didn't understand/comprehend how benchmarking software worked.
I also point out the 'throttling' software Apple used slowed the iPhone for between 1/100th to 1/1000th of a second in reality. This software had been in operation FOR OVER A YEAR without anyone - ANYONE - noticing until the incompetent person started bleating from a position of ignorance AND incompetence.
So yeah - my first gut reaction is people are dumb/incompetent because history proves this position to be the one to back time and time and time again.
100 collective hours. I spent a couple of days with another engineer, we escalated it and a group also spent a couple of days, and we escalated it further. MYSELF I only looked at it for 2 full work days. Out of three years working there yeah sorry I have worked on thousands of other configurations since that computer.
Typically work hours includes multiple individuals. So if two people spend an entire work day on something, that is 16 working hours being reported on the incident.
Also, this was a different incident than the 2011 system. I verified on Intel's page that NX wasn't supported and stopped trying to force an upgrade in under one business day. Let the company know that computer does not support Windows 8. (if you recall the 100 collective work hours incident was tied to a Windows 10 upgrade stuck on 1803. I don't think that existed in 2011!)
You should be backing up your data before the drive dies, because you should be doing it regularly anyway. Not doing so leaves you open to losing it all if the machine is stolen, dies in a house fire, something in the OS goes rogue and deletes/corrupts it, etc.
That's concerning. Your usage is similar to mine and I'm at 511GB written but I'm on MBA M1 16GB/256GB acquired end of January 2021.
The source material of this post comes from Linus Tech Tips, a notoriously anti-Apple especially M1 chip site. I agree. This is a nothing burger
What do you want... individual names? It doesn‘t matter. Apple’s product is Apple’s responsibility.
That's all I needed to hear. Should've known this crap article would come from an Apple trasher. I have no respect for Linus. Never have.
Linus has actually said good things about the M1. Are you going off just the title of his videos?
"Apple made a BIG Mistake" video title is actually in regards to how can they one up themselves after their massive advancement they did.
Even if Apple didn't say it, they only offer the default configs with 8GB if RAM. To get 16, you have to BTO, and in some markets like my country, we cannot BTO. So we can only buy the default models with 8GB of RAM.
This is absolutely a whole nothing burger. 98% of Apple Mac users don't use their machines for anything seriously write intensive. If you did you're on the wrong machine. I buy expensive Mac products just to browse the web and listen to overpriced iTunes music. But don't me wrong, having soldered in storage makes complete sense because I'd have to pay to get it swapped out if indeed it failed. Now I just throw away my entire machine and buy a new one! problems solved!
And the only way to know if this isn't an Apple bashing video is to watch it which provides clicks for Linus, so it's a clickbait video using a title that he knows Apple haters will quickly click to watch. He's a POS. Always has been when it comes to Apple.
Unfortunately that is the YouTube game. Linus isn't doing it to be evil, YouTube pretty much requires it these days.
Funny you talked about people being 100% wrong..
This is not how rights, metaphorical or legal, actually work.
For there to be a "breech of contract" or even a breach of contract created as a result of someone saying "We’re entitled to a voice and customer services at this sort of price points" they would have to have agreed to a contract that prohibited them from saying such a thing, and such a contract would have to be legal to begin with in the jurisdiction they reside in. The former seems unlikely to be true in any agreement a customer may have agreed to with Apple in order to purchase and use an M1 Mac, and the latter isn't necessarily legal either considering how consumer rights in most jurisdictions provide legal protections that override anything Apple can put in contracts (hell, they were successfully sued over not making consumer rights in EU member states clear enough).
But hey, as someone who, unlike them, apparently reads contracts, I'm sure you can show us where the purchaser of an M1 Mac is engaging in a "breech of contract" if they have the utter audacity to be concerned about the possibility of an issue with that product, and assert that "we’re entitled to a voice and customer services at this sort of price points". Truly, I look forward to it.
I just had quote you to after seeing someone down-voted your suggestion. Like, my goodness, why would you not want a user replaceable SSD? What kind of an evil person would you have to be to wish something like that 😂
Interesting... I’ll be watching this with some interest. Thank you for the heads up
Apple screwed up power management of their processor and it caused phone shutdowns at very healthy battery charge levels (as high as 40%). It was a design flaw for which they had to compensate with throttling. Good example to point out how the customers discover major flaws.
I have a 2017 15" MBP with the flexgate problem Apple won't acknowledge for this model. If I open the lid even slightly, the display shuts off. I've been waiting for a model that I feel safe buying that won't suffer a fatal flaw. I'm still waiting.
No, the fact is the keyboard designers are not the logic board designers. You’re assuming they make the same mistake as keyboard designers. That and you’re arguing this is an issue when there is nothing but people reporting some stats we can’t confirm actually mean anything right now.