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		blep-arsh on Feb 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes ove... Apple's own Activity Monitor shows hundreds of GBs of disk writes per hour on my M1 Macbook Pro. Smartctl output showing 10+ terabytes of writes per month looks about right. Apple doesn't provide lifetime TBW numbers but e.g. Samsung seems to only cover about 150-250 terabytes written total for various 250GB SSD models.

rodgerd on Feb 24, 2021 [–]

Go have a look at the linked thread, where people are basic their hysteria on three order of magnitude errors.

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