Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte...
by jacquesm on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @05:35PM
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> since whatever failure damaged the SSD is statistically likely to compromise the reliability of the rest of the board
That's a pretty big assumption.
The SSD is the component that is most likely to fail next to the battery.
So effectively this makes the lifetime of the computer the lifetime of the SSD, which is just one shade away from planned obsolescence due to the write limitations of SSDs.
edit:
ChuckNorris89 wrote pretty much the same but four hours earlier.
That's a pretty big assumption.
The SSD is the component that is most likely to fail next to the battery.
So effectively this makes the lifetime of the computer the lifetime of the SSD, which is just one shade away from planned obsolescence due to the write limitations of SSDs.
edit: ChuckNorris89 wrote pretty much the same but four hours earlier.