I want to buy Mac Mini 2020 with 1-2 Tb SSD, but noticed that a lot of people complain to SSD issues because of SMART tests "Percentage used / written" results. I see that Mac Mini worked one week and written 6-7 Tb of data.
Is anyone found any solution? Does this problem actual for All OS and Mac Mini?
May be I can disable Spootlight / Swap and/or choose another Mac OS? Any temporary solution or Apple fixed this problem?
Thank you
HWTech wrote:
Here is an article which mentions the reporting issue may have been fixed with macOS 11.4:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/04/apple-resolves-m1-mac-ssd-storage-longevity-issue-in-macos-114-beta
That's what I've saying all this time. People should listen to me. 😎
"At the time, an AppleInsider source within Apple, not authorized to speak on behalf the company, told us that it was a data reporting error within the tools used to report SSD wear. According to that source, it was not believed to be an actual hardware issue with the SSD, nor were the SSDs aging notably faster than prior because of RAM swap or other reasons."
You said:
Here is part of a DriveDX report…
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If you have not personally encountered such issues, what do you want to prove to someone? You cannot participate in this discussion because you believe that problem never existed for anyone.
If there are people who have observed this problem, I would like to hear their experience. If the problem was solved by an update or disappeared by itself over time, I would be only glad to hear about that from them.
SteamX wrote:
. . . users have calculated that the SSD will work not for 5-7 years for standard use, but for 2-3 years
As the M1 is a recent release, won't we need to wait 2-3 years to find out if these calculations are accurate as predictions of drive life?
MtD
I just don't want to face the SSD problem after this time. Some users wrote that according to SMART data, it's used 15% of disk health for a short period 3-6 months with usual use. It is possible that apps show incorrect data but everyone used them before and the data was probably correct. May be this is caused by new system architecture.
woodmeister50 wrote:
FWIW, I have a n M1 MacBook Air 8GB/512GB that I purchased the end of November 2020. Results from smartctl app:
My M1 MacBook Air is 16GB/512GB. I guess mine should last 44 years. 😎
I believe I saw an article which mentioned the issue was resolved by macOS 11.4, but I don't recall which site had the article. I only saw the one article as none of the other main tech sites seemed to have picked up the information or mentioned it.
What is the issue exactly? SSDs are made to read/write data.
Why did you start a new thread if your concern is addressed in the thread you linked to?
FWIW, I don't think there is an issue.
This is not good answer to my question, if you never hear about this issue related to a lot of people before.
No matter where i created discussion - old topic created in Feb 2021. This is new topic.
I'm not aware of any systemic issue with respect to Mac SSDs.
Actually I didn't link to any app, but I have no desire to beat a dead horse. Believe what you will.
And you said…
"You linked to same SMART thrid-party apps in your post before"
Before what?
You could be correct. I might have the only M1 Mac without excessive wear. Good luck.
As I stated, I've had my M1 Mac for over 8 months, delivered 7 days after their release. Just how much "shorter disk usage period" do you think there could be?
I already said in posts before. I also said that problem is not relevant for everу device so you can believe that everything will be fine with your device.
Meg has a point. Maybe you should wait 2 or 3 years and see what happens.
dialabrain wrote:
That's what I've saying all this time. People should listen to me. 😎
FWIW, I agree.
Is M1 Excessive SSD wear issues fixed?
