XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com   
      
   On Jan 29, 2026 at 9:09:23 PM MST, "Alan" wrote   
   <10lhatj$1qprf$3@dont-email.me>:   
      
   >> Careful how you try to misrepresent what I've been writing about. :) I've   
   >> stated that the SSD is soldered - which is correct. I've also stated that   
   >> when the SSD dies, you won't be using external media to boot the machine and   
   >> continue using it - Apple thought it was wise to move some much needed   
   >> firmware from it's own chip onto the NANDs which makeup the SSD. Lose that   
   >> firmware, lose the computer. You can't just desolder those NANDs and replace   
   >> them. You won't have a copy of the necessary firmware. Apple doesn't want to   
   >> sell you those NANDs. but, they did at one point offer a 1TB kit; you'd just   
   >> have to manually remove all of the NANDs by hand and ever so carefully   
   >> solder them to the affected board. Then, figure out some way to get the   
   >> necessary firmware back into them. This easily turns the repair job into one   
   >> that will cost the client 800 or more. Good luck with that.   
   >   
   > What you've yet to show is that Apple's SSDs fail completely in any   
   > significant numbers.   
      
   He is trying to push what may very well be be real -- that there is a specific   
   tradeoff with a downside that bothers him -- and use it to suggest something:   
   that Macs do not last as long. I have shown where the opposite is true.   
      
   When asked about this he stopped responding... he knows this is his game. He   
   knows he has no real broad point. He is just playing games.   
      
      
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