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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by chaosmachine on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @09:21PM (#26245850)
16GB/1TB model, two months old:

  SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
  Critical Warning:                   0x00
  Temperature:                        24 Celsius
  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    0%
  Data Units Read:                    3,019,145 [1.54 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 3,392,635 [1.73 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 55,076,557
  Host Write Commands:                29,421,973
  Controller Busy Time:               0
  Power Cycles:                       100
  Power On Hours:                     28
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   16
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
  Error Information Log Entries:      0
Doesn't seem too bad.
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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by niteshade on Thursday February 25, 2021 @07:12PM (#26270067)
16GB/1TB, also two months old:

  SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
  Critical Warning:                   0x00
  Temperature:                        34 Celsius
  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    2%
  Data Units Read:                    117,513,026 [60.1 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 110,686,292 [56.6 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 506,322,545
  Host Write Commands:                351,505,939
  Controller Busy Time:               0
  Power Cycles:                       389
  Power On Hours:                     388
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   40
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
  Error Information Log Entries:      0
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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by tpowell on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:59AM (#26248049)
16GB/1TB about a month old:

  SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
  Critical Warning:                   0x00
  Temperature:                        32 Celsius
  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    0%
  Data Units Read:                    16,603,470 [8.50 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 15,747,066 [8.06 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 95,905,593
  Host Write Commands:                62,087,286
  Controller Busy Time:               0
  Power Cycles:                       93
  Power On Hours:                     52
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   7
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
  Error Information Log Entries:      0
FWIW I've installed each incremental MacOS update the day it came out.
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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by code_duck on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @08:07AM (#26249425)
That's double the reads/writes of my 16 GB/1 TB 2020 Intel MBP for less than 1/3 the Power On Hours. Ratio between data total and read and write commands is quite different though.

    SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)  
    Critical Warning:                   0x00  
    Temperature:                        32 Celsius  
    Available Spare:                    100%  
    Available Spare Threshold:          99%  
    Percentage Used:                    0% 
    Data Units Read:                    8,413,842 [4.30 TB]
    Data Units Written:                 8,138,306 [4.16 TB]
    Host Read Commands:                 187,292,832
    Host Write Commands:                154,212,201
    Controller Busy Time:               0
    Power Cycles:                       105
    Power On Hours:                     171
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