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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by arrty88 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:14AM (#26246836)
I suppose it could be Mail, Spotify, iCloud, or anything really. But if its happening on all the new M1 macs, what do you think the common denominator is?
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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by hmage on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:38AM (#26246956)
If you follow the original twitter thread - https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1364409829788250113 - you'll find that it's not affecting all M1 macs, and affects many intel macs, therefore it's almost guaranteed to be third party app's behaviour (writing 4kb chunks with O_DIRECT will lead to SSD write amplification)
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