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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by fingerlocks on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:19PM (#26246216)
My 2017 MBP is showing 97% capacity. It's my daily driver. So at this rate I can expect the SSD to last 291 years? Really? Either these numbers are bogus, or the capacity drop over time is far from linear.
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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by wmf on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:30AM (#26246902)
That's just the wear capacity; an SSD can still suffer random failures at any time. The controller and DRAM aren't designed to last for decades.
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