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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by ryan29 on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @01:54AM (#26247351)
Can you explain this more? I always thought writes were by the page and erases were by the block, so the scenario you're describing would only be likely with TRIM disabled and an awful garbage collection algorithm.

I could be wrong though because I don't understand the implications of O_DIRECT.

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