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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by Filligree on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @12:00PM (#26252291)
In addition to what's been said, Flash cells lose data over time and need to be rewritten.

The controllers take care of this. But an SSD that has gone read-only, assuming it can in fact go read-only, is an SSD that will quickly lose all its data.

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