M1 Mac users report alarming hard drive health readings
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`If this is accurate, some of these machines aren`t going to last half a year` What you need to know M1 Mac users are reporting extremely troublesome health readings from their SSDs. The TBW (total bytes written) figures show the life spans of these hard drive scould be in real danger. There is hope however that a software bug is behind the issue. There are numerous reports from M1 Mac users that macOS is giving out worrying hard drive health reports which could indicate severe life span problems. From the LTT forums: Some more professional users of the new M1 Macbooks are experiencing extremely high drive writes over relatively short time. The most severe cases have `consumed` about 10-13% of the maximum warrantable TBW value of the SSDs (given their capacity & using values for equivalent market-available NVMe drives). 2TB 16GB model. 3% used.That means that for a 256GB model, proportionally, you`d expect ~30% usage.If this is accurate, some of these machines ...