SSD health MacBook pro m1 max

I bought my MacBook pro m1 max with 1tb SSD 14 month ago. I used it only for light tasks. I didn't render hiqh quality video or something like this. And I did not expose the SSD to permanent recording.


I wondered when I saw that my SSD is 81% healthy now.

I used 2 different software for checking: cleanmymac and DriveDX.

In both I see 81% Health rating.

Is it ok?

Posted on Sep 18, 2023 10:57 PM

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Sep 19, 2023 8:05 PM in response to Andru1989

Just out of curiosity post the complete DriveDx text report here using the "Additional Text" icon which looks like a piece of paper. Unfortunately health monitoring apps like DriveDx are not very good at properly evaluating the health of an SSD. A drive health monitoring app for an SSD can alert the user to manually check & interpret the SSD's health information, but you cannot rely on the fact that a "Failing" or "Warning" condition is really something to worry about due to how SSDs work (for Hard Drives, these notices are enough to warrant replacing a hard drive, but SSDs are different). Unfortunately manually interpreting the health of an SSD is tricky especially since many of today's SSDs (especially Apple's SSDs) don't include enough health information to make a good assessment.


As for CMM, uninstall it by following the developer's instructions. CMM has a notoriously bad reputation on these forums for causing all sorts of issues with macOS. Anti-virus apps, cleaning/optimizer apps, and third party security software is not needed on a Mac. These types of apps usually causes more problems than they solve, plus they impact system performance. CMM is designed to interfere with the normal operations of macOS which means macOS is not operating the way it was designed by Apple. These forums are filled with so many people's issues magically disappearing once CMM has been fully uninstalled.

SSD health MacBook pro m1 max

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