Upgraded a 2017 21.5 with a 32GB SSD fusion drive system with a used 256GB SSPolaris SSD. Purchased 2x used from ebay and both have very high life time writes (450TB and 120TB) These are far higher than most 11-15 Macbook SSD's (SSUAX SSUBX) I've seen. Did see a 256GB M1 with 150TB once but early M1's macOS with 8GB RAM had some high SSD write issues.
My question is has anyone else seen fusion drive setup somehow abuse these SSD with very high writes? Seem unlikely I ordered 2 and both came from some kind of crazy high usage.
Installed the 120TB SSD (DriveDx reports 73% life remain. DriveDX reports 50% life remain on the 450GB writes) and not using it as fusion drive. User has maybe 40GB drive storage use total with system so just using it as the main drive with 1TB HDD as a 2nd drive for any large infrequent storage needs.
Didn't using a standard NVMe drive + adapter as I've had various problems with this solution in the past in MBs. iMacs with double sided taped on LCD isn't quite as easy to access.
Generally, effective fall back solution for these double sided taped LCD iMacs are
My question is has anyone else seen fusion drive setup somehow abuse these SSD with very high writes? Seem unlikely I ordered 2 and both came from some kind of crazy high usage.
Installed the 120TB SSD (DriveDx reports 73% life remain. DriveDX reports 50% life remain on the 450GB writes) and not using it as fusion drive. User has maybe 40GB drive storage use total with system so just using it as the main drive with 1TB HDD as a 2nd drive for any large infrequent storage needs.
Didn't using a standard NVMe drive + adapter as I've had various problems with this solution in the past in MBs. iMacs with double sided taped on LCD isn't quite as easy to access.
Generally, effective fall back solution for these double sided taped LCD iMacs are
- External USB-3 USB-C enclosure SSD as boot drive. Fairly fast and certainly much faster than internal HDD boot drive.
- Change 2.5" SATA HDD to SSD and use as boot drive
