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A comment on Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?.

Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by searchableguy on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:26PM (#33028166)
A couple hundred gbs write and read per day seem normal to me for a developer machine.

Spinning up a new VM from scratch itself will take around 10gb read and write.

If you are building containers or loading up a lot of data, can easily reach that.

I'm surprised your figures are low because I always see tens of gbs of write and read normally without doing much.

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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by cool_hw on Thursday September 29, 2022 @07:05PM (#33028545)
I'm doing none of that on this machine yet.

In generak, it can reach it easily on a dev machine, but it seems like the norm. And my linux experience is at 1/5th or 1/10th the amount of data read/write tha comparable tasks.

Looking at this thread, it seems this is the way with macOS.

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