These first gen bottom-of-the-food-chain M1s are cheap for a reason — they're disposable
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M1 Mac Users Report Excessive SSD Wear
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if you have the dev tools installed, you can easily build smartmontools without Homebrew. It’s just the usual default ./configure && make && sudo make install.
I don't know.
Look at Samsung phones vs iPhones.
The regular iPhone 12 has only 4GB of memory and some Samsung models have even to up to 12GB.
Yet the iPhone 12 is better or equal in every category in terms of performance, even memory-specific tests.
I'd almost extend that to not buy until 4th generation model.
iPhone 4
Apple Watch Series 4
iPad 4
those M1 owners are running disk benchmark everyday or what?!? 
my M1 MacBook Air bought 1 week after it has been available is still at 100% health left.
this is with 8GB of ram and 512SSD.
my M1 MacBook Air bought 1 week after it has been available is still at 100% health left.
this is with 8GB of ram and 512SSD.
Don't waste your breath here with facts. Have you noticed virtually every week MR has a negative article posted trying to wreak havoc on the M1 Macs? First it's Intel, then Microsoft jumped on board with their latest Mac trashing ad to get people off the M1 in favor of a Surface. Now all of a sudden there's this BS of alleged SSD wear on MacBooks that haven't even been on the market for 3 months. TF? Yeah right. 🙄
The truth is there are companies like Intel and individuals who hate that Apple has a winner laptop processor and THEY KNOW the upcoming redesign 14" and 16" MBP's, iMac and the Mac Pro are going to stomp all over AMD and Intel making them look even more stupid than they are for slacking on innovation over the years, so they are trying to bring Apple down as usual.
Surface is more for business users. My Macbook Air M1 is a brick so it's stationary while I grab the lighter Microsoft Surface Pro X on the go plus it has superior webcam, wwan, pen, touchscreen and will last longer with user replaceable SSD.
I posted a bit ago, but there's a precompiled package available for easy download. https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Download#InstalltheOSXDarwinpackage
Ha, thanks for the Surface advertisement. Sales still suck for the Surface because many people just don't want them, and for the record ANY computer can be used for business and HP Dell and Lenovo have that covered quite well. Love the trolling attempt calling the M1 Air a brick. 🙄
And quite honestly, my $1499 M1 MBP is very cheap compared to my $3700 16” i9 that is a space heater and weighs as much as a small child, while outperforming it very handily.
I've had just about every Surface ever made...the SSD will likely be the last thing you have to worry about.
Not to mention, I'll be trading it in and upgrading to the next iteration way before I'd encounter any real issue.
I didn't even know this was an issue with SSD's. I assumed that since they had no moving parts, they had an indefinite life cycle.
Learned something new today.
Learned something new today.
A Mac mini espeically in its current form (which used to be able to house two 2.5" drives or 1 2.5" drive plus optical drive, can probably hold a dozen nvme drives if not more.
Apple's decision to make the storage soldered on is purely for profit motivation, and not to give the end user any sort of chance on upgrading in the futre. Want more storage or ram later? Buy a new computer.
I agree. Tested it on my MacBook Pro 2019 which I've had for about 19 months and my current usage is 12% (129 TB) so should be good for at least 13 years.
those M1 owners are running disk benchmark everyday or what?!?
my M1 MacBook Air bought 1 week after it has been available is still at 100% health left.
this is with 8GB of ram and 512SSD.
That doesn't mean anything without showing TBW since larger capacity SSD has higher endurance.
I think the strange thing in this report is that doing basic math at the current reported wear and tear is still many years worth of use. Example 2 months = 1% use which in that case would equate to 200 months for full use which when divided by 12 months = 16+ years. Even if you used 1-2% of total disk usage a month you would have 4 to 8yrs of disk life.
So really I am scratching my head right now as to why this would be so mind blowing. Anyone that uses a computer with heavy enough task to kill a drive in 4 years is probably already going to be upgrading their machine on similar or faster cadence. Most normal consumer hard drives don't warranty the drive beyond 3 years regardless of it being SSD or old school platter drives.
I am not fan in general of non-replaceable parts but I am just saying the life span here doesn't seem out of line.
So really I am scratching my head right now as to why this would be so mind blowing. Anyone that uses a computer with heavy enough task to kill a drive in 4 years is probably already going to be upgrading their machine on similar or faster cadence. Most normal consumer hard drives don't warranty the drive beyond 3 years regardless of it being SSD or old school platter drives.
I am not fan in general of non-replaceable parts but I am just saying the life span here doesn't seem out of line.
This issue wouldn't affect Intel Macs too, would it? While I have an understanding of technology, but when it comes to the components of a board, I'm clueless.
I have always maintained that computers should be modular to allow for repairability and help costs for consumers. Though faster wear and tear is an issue in its own right seeing as it is data, but people would probably not freak out so much if it was just a component they could replace anytime.
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