M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time

Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by dukeofdoom on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @08:49PM (#26245629)

I still use my apple 16GB ipod touch to play music, its in a speaker that has a dock for it. Still works, and I use it to play music. The hardware works. But almost none of the software works, except the music player. The browser no longer works, otherwise I would play music off of spotify or youtube. That thing is probably 13 years old now.

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by culopatin on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:19PM (#26245848)

Good for you. Do you use a 16yo laptop though? Because that is the topic here.

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by Hiopl on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:34PM (#26245944)

Performance improvements have slowed a great deal since then. Assuming you aren't doing anything particularly heavy, you can easily get away with using a Sandy Bridge CPU (10 years old) for most tasks. You'll likely still be able to use it in 5 years just fine. That applies even moreso for something as performant and efficient as the M1.

Case in point, my ThinkPad T420 has been in use since 2011. Even though it's no longer my main driver, the performance is more than good enough for when I need a backup device.

For comparison, 16 years ago, we're talking about single-core 32-bit CPUs, the very first version of their Centrino brand, DDR2 RAM and IDE/PATA HDDs. There's just not much you can do with those limitations.

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by auggierose on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @01:37AM (#26247262)

The performance improvements due to parallel computing hardware (think Metal GPUs and their successors) will be so insane in 16 years that your current laptop won't stand a chance at doing anything what will be considered standard then.

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by lmm on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:18AM (#26248145)

Increasing parallelism is irrelevant for most workloads due to Amdahl's law.

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by Filligree on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @11:58AM (#26252256)

Amdahl's law is only relevant if you can't change your algorithms. If you can, then most of the time it's a non-issue.

The human brain runs off umptillion neurons each running at 100-1000 Hz (depending on measure). Not GHz, MHz or even kHz. Hz. Obviously it's an extreme case, but if general intelligence can be achieved without fast serial computing then there should be lots of things we can do with a few dozen cores all running at GHz rates.

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by auggierose on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @05:41AM (#26248601)

That's bullshit. All of the programs I have written recently had an incredible speedup after porting relevant parts of the program from single-threaded to GPU.

Right now we are hitting the threshold of incompetent programmers and tools long before any other.

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by dukeofdoom on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @08:59AM (#26249869)

Only occasionally, I have an old windows laptop with a CD rom drive. I have some old backups photos on CDs. Its from the 2000s so not sure how old it is exactly.

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