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So.. people are trusting a homebrew app designed for traditional storage controllers. Keeping in mind any T2 based mac / M1 Mac use a proprietary controller unique to Apple.

Hmm. Smells like a nothing burger to me. Anyone else?
Of course! This forum especially trusts anything that represents Apple in a negative way even if said product is full of baloney, which is obvious it is.
 
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.
 
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DriveDX is just a fancy GUI for the open source smartmontools, so you should get the same results.
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 honestly expect me to remember a specific Intel processor on a 2011 laptop (which was probably 2010 or 2009 processor) when I investigated issues upgrading to Windows 8 when we upgraded systems in 2013? I have since left that job and have had several other jobs since then. How do you expect me to remember the model number? Its not like I can export all my notes when I leave a company and take them with me.

I guess you never worked in corporate IT or managed services provider where you look at hundreds of systems a week.

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.
 
Relax. Firstly, Apple is employing regular engineers not super-geniuses. Their salaries are somewhat competitive but not more than that. It's a job for hire which always has limited financial opportunities. Apple will comment on this whether the concerns are real or not because they have to address the issue that got their customers concerned. This happened many time before. They probably won't do it today but, regardless, it would be stupid to claim that the issue is not real because Apple has not commented on it (yet). Usually it takes them weeks (and sometimes - months) to come up with clarifications/explanations/recalls.

... 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.
 
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.
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!)
 
I wouldn't have had a problem with this if:

1-It tells me to backup before my drive dies

2-I am able to replace the drive easily with reasonable price.
 
1-It tells me to backup before my drive dies
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.
 
Internet browsing (edge & safari) and iMessage? How is it even possible to write 20TB of data that I never consumed. Something must be going really wrong with their swap (which I typically see at around 6GB).

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.
 
I have had my m1 mba 8/256 since Feb 10, so 13 days. I'm a graduate student in humanities, so lots of PDFs, research, file syncing, etc...

I feel a little concerned. Should I be concerned?
 

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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
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.

 
Pretty sure apple never said anything like this. It was dumb YouTubers who said 8gb is enough
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!
 
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.

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.
 
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.
 
Exactly, completely, 100% wrong.

You are "entitled" to value in exchange for your money. You received that value when you exchanged money for your Apple product. You are NOT entitled to one thin penny more. In fact, Apple has spent a great deal of money paying lawyers to exactly and precisely explain in a contract what value you are "entitled" to receive. Look at apple.com/legal - not that you will - to educate yourself as to exactly what your "entitlements" are in reality.

If you attempt to extract one penny more, that is what is called "breech of contract". Apple should immediately sue you for it, but then you would be all butthurt and run off crying to the media or anyone else who mistakenly listens to your bleating.

Unlike you, I read contracts. I know exactly where the lines are drawn. I don't attempt to claim that I have "rights" that are not spelled out in the contract to which I HAVE AGREED TO ALL THE TERMS. If you don't agree, then don't buy Apple products.

It really is just that simple.

Trying to invent "rights" after all contracts are executed should get you sued, but you are just lucky this hasn't happened to you yet.
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.
 
Apple should adopt user replaceable SSD like Microsoft Surface Pro X that's 7.3mm thin so no excuses for 16.1mm Macbook Air M1.
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 😂
 
... 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.
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.
 
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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.
 
What do you want... individual names? It doesn‘t matter. Apple’s product is Apple’s responsibility.
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.
 
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