Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity

Re:Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't ca... by Ryder123 on Thursday February 17, 2022 @11:29AM (#30374924)

As the article points out, a lot of those cases can be detected with advanced notice (dying battery, and overheating - probably even being too cold). In those cases the OS makes sure all the caches are flushed.

Spilled drinks are a viable cause for concern, but if they do enough damage to cause an unexpected shutdown, you've probably got bigger issues than unflushed cache.

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Re:Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't ca... by ClumsyPilot on Friday February 18, 2022 @08:45AM (#30385577)

"In those cases the OS makes sure all the caches are flushed."

I have never heard of this functionality being included in any major OS, could you please provide some reference to this being documented?

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Re:Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't ca... by dathinab on Thursday February 17, 2022 @03:55PM (#30378527)

I think that's misleading.

On many laptops even with water damage you can recover your local data fully, not do for Macs (for more reasons then just data loss/corruption due to non flushing).

Especially if you are already in a bad situation you don't want your OS to make it worse.

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