[HN Gopher] M1 Mac users report alarming hard drive health readi...
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       M1 Mac users report alarming hard drive health readings - iMore
        
       Author : thedday
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2021-03-01 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | fsflover wrote:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26244093
        
       | supermatt wrote:
       | FUD.
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       | Everyone is spouting TBW when percentage used is what
       | manufacturer set to be the warranties lifetime. Go read the smart
       | specs.
       | 
       | No one talking about NAND types (SLC,MLC,TLC,QLC) or one of the
       | hybrid types (pSLC, iTLC, etc) which can be difference between 1k
       | and over 100k P/E cycles.
       | 
       | My guess is this behaviour is (mostly) by design, using high
       | bandwidth mass storage as some awesome high performance virtual
       | memory.
       | 
       | Why are people complaining about 1-3% wear in 2 months when used
       | as a dev machines, or running a hundred tabs in chrome? That's
       | still over 5 years usage within expected lifetime on very heavily
       | used machines, and it could be even higher in reality.
        
       | kingnothing wrote:
       | As a counterpoint, I've had a 16GB M1 MacBook Air since launch
       | for casual use and light experimental home dev work. 0% wear so
       | far.
        
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