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."
Great minds think alike.
ABBar wrote:
That article is completely wrong and is based on provably false information.
Feel free to submit your proof to Apple: Feedback - macOS - Apple
You linked to same SMART thrid-party apps in your post before. This is because Apple do not have official SMART-monitoring apps and people use another apps, which for some reason began to show incorrect data (?) on the new M1 - THIS caused a lot of questions.
FWIW, I have a n M1 MacBook Air 8GB/512GB that I purchased the end of November 2020. Results from smartctl app:
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 27,548,147 [14.1 TB]
Data Units Written: 11,627,389 [5.95 TB]
I have been tracking since this "issue" was first reported and have been updating a spread sheet.
Estimating a a life of 200TBW for "consumer quality SSD", this would result in a demise of
my SSD in 22 years. Is Apple using higher TBW rated SSD chips in their products? Don't know.
Also, I know for a fact that I am definitely using swap when I am doing photo processing.
Also, FWIW, from all that I have been reading here and elsewhere, the "excessive write" issues have been limited to
certain apps.
dialabrain wrote:
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."
That article is completely wrong and is based on provably false information.
There is no reporting issue. There was never a reporting issue. The data was written. There was never any doubt that the data was written.
The idea that there was ever a reporting issue was described as "complete bull****" by the very same source they quote in that article claiming that it was fixed.
The data is still being written, at a rate many times higher than Intel Macs with the same amount of RAM, as of macOS 11.6.
Is M1 Excessive SSD wear issues fixed?
