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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by rasz on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @11:01PM (#26246437)
>says that a total of 1% of the drive's capacity has been used, which means that in about 16.5 years (2 months * 99 / 12)

And cellphone reception bars accurately tell you signal strength on Apple product https://mspoweruser.com/apple-admits-to-the-iphone-lying-for...

What really matters is the number of write cycles drive performed, not some imaginary dumbed down single number "Percentage Used" indicator.

> their drive will go readonly.

Cn you point me to a drive manufacturer/model which reliably goes into READ ONLY mode after encountering a defect/exceeding wear limit? Hint: Even most expensive Intel server drives will silently die on you despite claiming read only fallback.

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