<story><title>How to estimate an SSD’s working life</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2022/12/05/how-to-estimate-an-ssds-working-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drooopy</author><text>According to the guy behind Asahi Linux, there was no misreporting. It was an actual bug and those excessive write operations happened. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;marcan42&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1396374313591140357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;marcan42&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1396374313591140357?ref_...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;While I don&amp;#x27;t like it being that way, I can definitely see the benefits of non-upgradeable RAM. The performance of the SOC on my &amp;quot;lowly&amp;quot;, entry-level M1 Air is out of this world.&lt;p&gt;But an SSD that&amp;#x27;s glued on to the motherboard has 0 benefits that I can think of and basically only serves to give any computer a hard coded expiration date. And thinness is not an excuse. There are computers as thin as the Air that have removable storage drives.</text></item><item><author>tokamak-teapot</author><text>Did the question about Apple’s new laptops and their apparently high writes in general usage get resolved? And was it incorrect&amp;#x2F;misleading reporting, or somehow not a problem (life of SSD still likely to be ‘long enough’) or is it still potentially the case that the machines will be ‘bricked’ due to the non-replaceable SSD dying early?&lt;p&gt;I don’t mind having to have the SSD replaced by Apple if the cost is reasonable, just as I do with batteries, but would be good to know what to expect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AceJohnny2</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;But an SSD that&amp;#x27;s glued on to the motherboard has 0 benefits&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s because, since the T2 chip and going on with Apple Silicon, they&amp;#x27;re not SSDs in the NVMe sense. They&amp;#x27;re an Apple-specific technology derived from their Anobit acquisition, that only look like an NVMe device to the upper layers.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to estimate an SSD’s working life</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2022/12/05/how-to-estimate-an-ssds-working-life/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>drooopy</author><text>According to the guy behind Asahi Linux, there was no misreporting. It was an actual bug and those excessive write operations happened. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;marcan42&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1396374313591140357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;marcan42&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1396374313591140357?ref_...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;While I don&amp;#x27;t like it being that way, I can definitely see the benefits of non-upgradeable RAM. The performance of the SOC on my &amp;quot;lowly&amp;quot;, entry-level M1 Air is out of this world.&lt;p&gt;But an SSD that&amp;#x27;s glued on to the motherboard has 0 benefits that I can think of and basically only serves to give any computer a hard coded expiration date. And thinness is not an excuse. There are computers as thin as the Air that have removable storage drives.</text></item><item><author>tokamak-teapot</author><text>Did the question about Apple’s new laptops and their apparently high writes in general usage get resolved? And was it incorrect&amp;#x2F;misleading reporting, or somehow not a problem (life of SSD still likely to be ‘long enough’) or is it still potentially the case that the machines will be ‘bricked’ due to the non-replaceable SSD dying early?&lt;p&gt;I don’t mind having to have the SSD replaced by Apple if the cost is reasonable, just as I do with batteries, but would be good to know what to expect.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JohnBooty</author><text>Yeah, that&amp;#x27;s what kills me.&lt;p&gt;And the only viable mitigation strategies involve giving Apple more money.&lt;p&gt;Spec&amp;#x27;ing a larger onboard SSD to spread out the writes for hopefully longer endurance should be effective.&lt;p&gt;And, perhaps, opting for more RAM to reduce VM writes to disk? I&amp;#x27;m not sure if that&amp;#x27;s effective. Perhaps the resulting sleep file will be larger as well, resulting on more writes overall. I&amp;#x27;m sure somebody can chime in on that?&lt;p&gt;At least the newer models have SD card slots; can use SD cards for semidurable storage. They are obviously unsuitable for some things, but fine for others.</text></comment>