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		john_alan on Feb 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes ove... Pagesize is now 16KB in ARM64 archs, not 4K anymore (intel). Maybe the SMART tools are miscalculating?

megous on Feb 24, 2021 [–]

Page size is variable on aarch64. You can even have 1GiB page if you like.

john_alan on Feb 24, 2021 | [–]

That's interesting, it seems to be 16KB on macOS implementations though.

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