M1 SSD high read and write usage per smartctl

Hello,

In the past few weeks it's been reported that M1 SSDs are writing a sufficient amount of data to their drives such that it could render the drive at its end of life in a few years.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1361151198921826308?lang=en

https://www.macworld.com/article/3609512/how-to-m1-intel-mac-ssd-health-terminal-smartmontools.html

The the smartctl tool reports that my M1 MacBook Air has written 12.3 TB since being purchased in mid-December. Assuming this SSD has a lifetime ability to write 150TB, this disk is expected to have issues in approximately 2.8 years.

My questions are 1) is smartctl correctly reporting SSD data write usage. 2) What is this SSDs actual lifetime writing ability? 3) When is my SSD actually expected to fail 4) What is Apple's position on this and what action are they taking to address it?

############################# smartctl log ############################

smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [Darwin 20.3.0 arm64] (local build)

Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Model Number:                       APPLE SSD AP0256Q

Serial Number:                      000000000000000

Firmware Version:                   1161.80.

PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x106b

IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x000000

Controller ID:                      0

NVMe Version:                       <1.2

Number of Namespaces:               3

Local Time is:                      Sun Mar  7 13:05:18 2021 EST

Firmware Updates (0x02):            1 Slot

Optional Admin Commands (0x0004):   Frmw_DL

Optional NVM Commands (0x0004):     DS_Mngmt

Maximum Data Transfer Size:         256 Pages

Supported Power States

St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat

 0 +     0.00W       -        -    0  0  0  0        0       0

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)

Critical Warning:                   0x00

Temperature:                        32 Celsius

Available Spare:                    100%

Available Spare Threshold:          99%

Percentage Used:                    1%

Data Units Read:                    29,157,637 [14.9 TB]

Data Units Written:                 24,058,076 [12.3 TB]

Host Read Commands:                 201,555,222

Host Write Commands:                126,383,064

Controller Busy Time:               0

Power Cycles:                       176

Power On Hours:                     132

Unsafe Shutdowns:                   5

Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0

Error Information Log Entries:      0