| ▲ | gck1 2 hours ago | |
Isn't that NVME also very expensive to replace because it's tied to hardware identifiers? If you keep swapping all the time, surely NVME would be the first part to fail | ||
| ▲ | ua709 an hour ago | parent [-] | |
This was heavily debated in the 11.4 timeframe because there was risk that this version of the OS could excessively wear NVME. https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/06/04/apple-resolves-m1... The issue was subsequently resolved but the consensus was with modern wear leveling this isn't so much a thing. I have a 2021 MacBook Pro with the original drive. I use it heavily for development practically every day and just dumped the SMART data. Model Number: APPLE SSD AP1024R === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 99% As always, YMMV | ||