M3 Macbook Pro SSD Writes seems unusual.

Hello Mac Fellows,

I recently switched from Windows to a brand new m3 MacBook Pro 8gb ram, 512 GB SSD (Been 6 days). Performance-wise, I'm over satisfied, it's super fast and everything works flawlessly. Even with yellow memory pressure, didn't see any performance drops.

I'm a graphic designer so I mostly use a browser Adobe Illustrator, and a bit of Photoshop for specific purposes like mockups.

The main issue about mac is the SSD that's not replaceable, I want to keep this Mac for 5 years at least. Because of that, I started to monitor the activity monitor very closely, especially, the swap used.

I noticed that mac is handling my current workflow perfectly, it stays mostly green, it uses swap like max 1gb, only when I open many tabs, that's when it becomes yellow. I first was using safari but maybe because of this update, it's a huge memory hog, this is why, I switched to edge which works super efficiently.

Now, long story short, I thought that I'm writing less to SSD since I'm only occasionally or using very little swap but when I started monitoring Disk tab on the activity monitor, I saw a crazy thing, at least, I think that it must be crazy, upon opening laptop, I see disk writes go to 500-800mb sometimes, within maybe 4-5 hours, I wrote 30gb or more. I believe, I'm writing 50gb-60gb per day, is that normal? Will this type of writing kill my SSD sooner like in 2-3 years?

Just checked the drivedx, and it says that I wrote 500 GB to SSD, it seems too much for 4 days, but I guess when I was using Safari, it jumped too high like 70 GB within a short time, this can be the cause.

Is this some kind of bug with sonoma? Is this behaviour of SSD norma? Should I use low power mode or something to make mac write less?

Would appreciate your help.

Thanks to all!