Re:Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it
by aurareturn on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:49AM
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That's not what happens when an SSD reaches the write limit. It'll simply not let you write more data and becomes read only.
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Re:Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it
by deafpolygon on Friday November 10, 2023 @05:15AM
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I have personally experienced this issue. It just gets very slow before slowly dying outright.
Re:Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it
by aurareturn on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:38AM
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On a Mac?
Re:Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it
by Canada on Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:08AM
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Yes I have seen this occur on multiple MacBook.
Re:Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it
by sbuk on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:51AM
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What on earth are you doing to make that happen? Either you’re use case is thrashing the SSD, you have a faulty part or you’re exaggerating.
Re:Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it
by deafpolygon on Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:54AM
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Um, I don't know. Exaggeration? No, I only wish. Faulty part or not, it happened years after the purchase.
Re:Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it
by Canada on Saturday November 11, 2023 @01:06AM
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I've never had an SSD that just stopped allowing writes and returns an error. Instead it gets slower and slower until at some point attempting to write anything will just block forever. The process trying will be stuck in the I/O wait "D" state in Linux and be basically unkillable.