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 jiripospisil on Friday September 30, 2022 @06:24AM (#33033101)

I'm surprised by the numbers here as well. I have a late 2016 MBP 512GB (used daily) and the numbers are nowhere similar. It's a bit worrying though that I'm the only one in this thread with error log entries.

  SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
  Critical Warning:                   0x00
  Temperature:                        30 Celsius
  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          10%
  Percentage Used:                    3%
  Data Units Read:                    59,731,850 [30.5 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 78,972,837 [40.4 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 1,676,492,248
  Host Write Commands:                2,466,236,096
  Controller Busy Time:               3,456
  Power Cycles:                       42,547
  Power On Hours:                     2,616
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   131
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
  Error Information Log Entries:      16

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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by cool_hw on Friday September 30, 2022 @07:40AM (#33033584)

Is there a way to look up that error log?

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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by jiripospisil on Saturday October 01, 2022 @05:12AM (#33045186)

  Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 64 entries)
  Num   ErrCount  SQId   CmdId  Status  PELoc          LBA  NSID    VS
    0         16     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    1         15     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    2         14     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    3         13     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    4         12     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    5         11     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    6         10     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    7          9     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    8          8     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
    9          7     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
   10          6     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
   11          5     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
   12          4     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
   13          3     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
   14          2     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
   15          1     0  0x0000  0x4016  0x004            0     1     -
  ... (48 entries not read)

To be honest I'm not sure how to interpret it. There are some tools on Linux to read this information but the output doesn't really seem more useful.

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Re:Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write i... by cool_hw on Saturday October 01, 2022 @07:14AM (#33045702)

I did a quick search earlier and it seems these are informational only and not necessarily persistent warnings. Some discussion suggested that some unsupported requests to the disk can result in these, but I don't know for sure.

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