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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by krackers on Friday September 30, 2022 @12:39AM (#33031028)
>open/close the lid 5 times in a day

It's a bit smarter than that, it only writes memory contents to disk after a given period in standby. So in your example you'd only be incurring it twice a day probably.

Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by cool_hw on Friday September 30, 2022 @07:36AM (#33033548)
Indeed, I intended to say letting it get to standby. :)