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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.
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