ssd swap - high usage of Terabytes Written

[Adora]

M4 Pro Mini, first used in January.
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The "power on hours" can't be correct. This Mac is running almost the whole day since six months.

 

[MacCheetah3]

The "power on hours" can't be correct. This Mac is running almost the whole day since six months.

Click on the attribute name for more information:

#12 Power On Hours

Contains the number of power-on hours of the SSD. This may not include a time that SSD controller was powered and in a Non-Operational Power State (NOPS).

"Power On Hours" parameter in NVMe SSDs only reports the actual working time of the SSD, the time spent on 1/0 operations, etc., and (on most NVMe SSD models) does not include standby time (when the SSD controller is in a sleep state). In such a case, the "Power On Hours" raw value could be relatively small (and much less than computer power-on time) as modern NVMe SSDs are very energy effective and extremely fast.

Important note: do not confuse with the number of power-on hours of the computer, these numbers are completely unrelated.

 

[snakes-]

Some people like me have disabled spotlight. Will you enable it for macos 26?

 

[Bungaree.Chubbins]

Some people like me have disabled spotlight. Will you enable it for macos 26?

I don’t know if I could use a computer without Spotlight!

I’ll have to get used to the changes, as I am one of the (apparently) few people who use Launchpad.

 

[Fishrrman]

"Some people like me have disabled spotlight. Will you enable it for macos 26?"

I've never used Spotlight, not since Apple first introduced it.
If it is "dis-able-able" in OS26, I'll disable it.

 

[benwiggy]

Some people like me have disabled spotlight.

Why? How do you find anything?

The improvements to Spotlight are actually some of the most interesting and useful functionality in the new OS, IMO.

 

[pshufd]

Why? How do you find anything?

The improvements to Spotlight are actually some of the most interesting and useful functionality in the new OS, IMO.

I've always disabled Spotlight. As to how I find stuff? I organize files so I know where they are.

One other thing if you're worried about TBW is to use an attached SSD. I have a 4 TB Samsung 990 Pro in an OWC 1M2 enclosure and it gets about 3,100 read/write and I put the vast majority of my files on it. If and when it goes, I'll just throw in another drive. The enclosure was $120 and the drive was about $300.

 

[BigMcGuire]

An Update from my 2021 16' MBP M1 Max with 4TB SSD - used every day heavily all day long (since it was bought) (I put it to sleep at night):