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Is Your M1 Mac SSD Going Nuts?
Lots of rumors and posts about M1 macs having huge wear and tear on the SSDs. Find out how to see for yourself.
Recently, I have seen a lot of posts online about M1 macs having an unreasonable amount of SSD wear and tear for unknown reasons.
Across Twitter and the MacRumors forums, users reported that M1 Macs are experiencing an extremely high amount of SSD writes over a short span of time. In what appear to be the most severe cases, M1 Macs are said to be consuming as much as 10–13% of the maximum warrantable total bytes written (TBW) value of its SSD!
This concerned me a lot! I have been using my Mac Mini M1 for two months now and it has been super quiet and cold to touch for the entire time. I started thinking if the SSD is getting crunched as my Mac Mini is always on.
To find out for me, I investigated this as much as I could and created the following video to help other users of M1 macs.
