| ▲ | jonplackett 13 hours ago |
| Is this going to destroy my SSD? |
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| ▲ | egorfine 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| no
it's reading, not writing |
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| ▲ | ElectricalUnion 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Using macos on low memory regimes will make it use disk-based swap. For example, a Macbook Neo (so in theory, something with around 4GiB of free RAM lying around) might eat around 900GB of writes a day while not doing much at all, because it's basically on low on RAM and swapping all the time. |
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| ▲ | Gigachad 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A particularly worrying situation considering a dead SSD will render your macbook usable for parts only. |
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| ▲ | cromka 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| By reading it? |
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| ▲ | mrob 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Reading causes insignificant wear ("read disturb") that likely isn't a problem, but I don't think it's possible to issue pure reads to modern SSDs. The NVMe spec mandates tracking the amount of data read, and this has to be written to the drive. I'd hope the firmware buffers this and writes it at low frequency, but on the other hand, I doubt the firmware was tested in extreme random-read regimes. Unexpected failures from excessive statistics recording could be possible. | |
| ▲ | carloslfu 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I don't know actually. I'll check haha. My best guess is it isn't. | | |
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