Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short...
by bitwize on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @10:50PM
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> I really don't understand why Apple is apparently incapable of making these laptops use standard, replaceable m.2 NVMe SSDs.
Because those SSDs don't have Apple magic. Apple's SSDs are designed to be directly attached to the M1 CPU to provide low latency, high throughput storage -- what amounts to nonvolatile RAM, allowing an M1 Mac with 16 GiB max to vastly outperform an x86 PC with much more RAM at the same tasks.
No, really, though, it's so they can charge an arm and a leg at the Genius Bar for SSD replacements.
Because those SSDs don't have Apple magic. Apple's SSDs are designed to be directly attached to the M1 CPU to provide low latency, high throughput storage -- what amounts to nonvolatile RAM, allowing an M1 Mac with 16 GiB max to vastly outperform an x86 PC with much more RAM at the same tasks.
No, really, though, it's so they can charge an arm and a leg at the Genius Bar for SSD replacements.