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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by kitsunesoba on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:29PM (#26244975)
My first thought when reading about this is that logging gone awry is a very likely cause. Could be the OS itself or apps doing it, but in either case a fix should be pretty reasonable.
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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by bobbylarrybobby on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @11:01PM (#26246439)
Reminds me of this: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/07/27/vmware-virtualbox...

> The engineer explains problem relates to a "regression in the com.apple.security.sandbox kext (or one of its related components)" in macOS 10.15.6. As part of the investigation, it was discovered com.apple.security.sandbox was allocating millions of blocks of memory containing just the text "/dev" and no other data.

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by fomine3 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:53PM (#26246079)
I think logging can't be a problem for recent NVMe SSD (but problem for small eMMC on cars).
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