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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by themagician on Thursday September 29, 2022 @06:39PM (#33028285)
I think in some cases the drive goes to "sleep" when idle and it counts a power cycle when it detects keyboard/mouse movement as a wake. I have an older 2016 MBP with a 2TB drive that has just shy of 50,000 power cycles… which doesn't seem possible, since that would average out to over 20 reboots a day, which doesn't happen. And in 6 years I only have 361 unsafe shutdowns.

There was a time period where I had this docked with displays and the MBP would often wake up from sleep randomly, or from mouse movements. Never did quite figure it out.

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