Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by tyingq on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:30PM
(#26244985)
How big of a drive is it? So far, most of the 3%+ used ones have 2TB drives, which is the opposite of what you would naively expect.
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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by bombcar on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:40PM
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On my older (3+ year now) MPB 16 with a 512GB drive I get:
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 41 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 22%
Data Units Read: 621,054,721 [317 TB]
Data Units Written: 483,003,547 [247 TB]
Host Read Commands: 9,028,855,382
Host Write Commands: 3,924,827,022
Controller Busy Time: 16,789
Power Cycles: 8,373
Power On Hours: 6,828
Unsafe Shutdowns: 375
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 271
Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by Juha on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @11:33PM
(#26246598)
My 2016 MBP shows very similar numbers, though my % is even higher (26%):
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 30 Celsius
Available Spare: 88%
Available Spare Threshold: 2%
Percentage Used: 24%
Data Units Read: 356,923,637 [182 TB]
Data Units Written: 354,603,847 [181 TB]
Host Read Commands: 2,817,724,668
Host Write Commands: 2,270,199,931
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 21,443
Power On Hours: 996
Unsafe Shutdowns: 21
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by nixgeek on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @08:05PM
(#26245310)
Wow. How long ago did you get the MBP 16"? I've been running this system as my daily driver for >12 months and see very different numbers from you:
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [Darwin 20.4.0 x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number: APPLE SSD AP8192N
Serial Number: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
Firmware Version: 1161.100
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x106b
IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x000000
Controller ID: 0
NVMe Version: <1.2
Number of Namespaces: 1
Local Time is: Tue Feb 23 17:01:28 2021 PST
Firmware Updates (0x02): 1 Slot
Optional Admin Commands (0x0004): Frmw_DL
Optional NVM Commands (0x0004): DS_Mngmt
Maximum Data Transfer Size: 256 Pages
Supported Power States
St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat
0 + 0.00W - - 0 0 0 0 0 0
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 37 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 53,827,033 [27.5 TB]
Data Units Written: 37,342,497 [19.1 TB]
Host Read Commands: 704,072,000
Host Write Commands: 669,901,451
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 234
Power On Hours: 528
Unsafe Shutdowns: 74
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by can16358p on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:17AM
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I think he means 16GB, not 16" as he mentions 3 yr old but 16" didn't exist 3 years ago.
Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by bombcar on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @08:58AM
(#26249867)
Yeah, should have been more specific - it's a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017)
Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by LegitShady on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @08:13PM
(#26245383)
older doesn't mean anything relevant to anyone but you. Did it have its bar mitzvah or is it 3 years old, nobody knows but you.
Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by SXX on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @07:45PM
(#26245138)
Pardon me. I have 256GB model. While I used it daily for almost 2 months now it's still sounds crazy to have 25TBW for my usage. I didn't used it for any programming or compilation, no brew package builds either. All I did is used Firefox, downloaded like 30GB of torrents and then watched some Netflix. Also I haven't even moved any of my files to this laptop: so no photo archive, no email sync or dropbox, literaly no usage.
All I can hope for is that it's some kind of bug in SMART or might be Apple gonna fix it soon. Since I use my Kubuntu desktop with Samsung 850 PRO 256GB way more heavily and I barely got to 30TBW in like 4 years.
Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by ComputerGuru on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @01:32AM
(#26247241)
Torrents suck for SSD lifetime, the chunk size is typically 16kb but chunks aren’t downloaded whole and in order, so you might end up with a lot of wear and tear unless the file system and the torrent client/library are both working together to eliminate the partial writes.
However, it doesn’t seem that torrents are a common factor in user accounts, and 30GiB in torrents would not account for that much write amplification, so carry on!
Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by katbyte on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @08:11PM
(#26245363)
Yea i'd personally be pretty annoyed if my macbook was just writing that much data in the background slowly wearing out my ssd, 25tb over 2 months is just silly.
checked my 2015 15" that i've been using non stop for over 3 years and it's at 96tb which is 2.6 a month.
Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by GekkePrutser on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @08:34PM
(#26245536)
You can also keep an eye on the data counter in activity monitor while it's on. At that kind of numbers you're doing to catch it even if it's periodic: it's got a running total too since the Mac was switched on.