Despite all the advances that Apple has brought to its new computers with the SoC M1, it still has to use traditional components in many areas. Among these are SSDs, which is today the standard for storage.
This component will normally have an extended service life, but this may not be true in the case of these Macs. The alert has just been released and reveals that the SSDs of computers with SoC M1 may be suffering from rapid wear and have very serious problems. earlier than expected.
New problems for the new Apple Mac
In normal use, and according to tests that have been carried out for some years, the useful life of an SSD should be around 10 years. Having no moving components, it is simple to evaluate the duration of these components and thus predict when they will give problems.
What is being reported now on many channels is that the new Macs with the SoC M1 may be suffering from wear and tear faster than expected. This behavior leads to a drastic decrease in its useful life, going on to be only 2 years or less.
2TB 16GB model. 3% used.
— Hector Martin (@marcan42) February 15, 2021
That means that for a 256GB model, proportionally, you'd expect ~30% usage.
If this is accurate, some of these machines aren't going to last half a year to 100%.
And that's a 16GB model. 8GB should be worse.
Holy shit. https://t.co/9HcmaYgJPT
Only machines with affected SoC M1
The information is not yet official and coming from Apple, but there are reports that macOS on these machines may be using SSDs too much. The present information shows that there are " extremely high disc writes in a relatively short time".
Other advanced information states that there are already machines that consumed 13% of the expected useful life of SSDs. The alert asks users to run specific commands to assess storage usage.
SSD service life almost disappears
Since this component is impossible to replace, the problem becomes even greater. A simple early failure of the SSD may make it impossible to use the new Macs in the near future. Interestingly, the size of the storage space seems to count and the smaller ones have bigger problems.
For now, there are no solutions or measures that can be taken. It is pointed out as a possible reason for the constant writing in the SSD to make a swap (virtual memory), but it still requires confirmation. So far Apple has not yet manifested itself, so the problem has no recognized cause.
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