XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-01-29 06:04, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >> The internal drive dying and turning the machine into a brick is a known   
   >> issue with Apple products. Specifically with Apple products. PC's don't   
   >> have this problem. Even a cheap one with a soldered SSD like is found in   
   >> Apples can still be operated from external media. The apple, ehh, not so   
   >> much, no.   
      
   > I would imagine that this is still a problem with more recent Macs. The   
   > only reason we know about it in the M1s is that MacOS was buggy at their   
   > time of release and used the storage for swap much too often. In other   
   > words, it wore out the NVMe prematurely. Apple has since fixed the bug and   
   > the NVMe doesn't get overused, but there is no reason to believe that the   
   > same thing won't happen to users who reach the NVMe's TBW with their M2,   
   > M3, M4 or M5 units.   
      
   "MacOS was buggy" and "used the storage for swap much too often"?   
      
   Got a cite for that?   
      
   And you guys keep talking about "TBW" as if it is a hard number where   
   the SSD just stops functioning at all...   
      
   ...and that, too is so much bullshit.   
      
   Aside from that, I've checked recently and my M3 MacBook Air's 1TB SSD   
   still has 97% of it's TBW...   
      
   ...after 22 months of use.   
      
   Do I have to spell out the arithmetic on that one...   
      
   ...or can you work out for yourselves what that suggests for the overall   
   life of the SSD?   
      
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