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Apple has been soldering the SSD into MacBooks for over 10 years now, and most 10 year old MacBooks still have a working SSD.
by windowsrookie 6mo ago
Apple has been soldering the SSD into MacBooks for over 10 years now, and most 10 year old MacBooks still have a working SSD.
- hermanzegerman 6mo agoNot if you're powerusing it like in the Article and relying heavily on Swap. Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles https://youtu.be/0qbrLiGY4Cg?si=mjKn2oLjqAb36hPU https://youtu.be/0qbrLiGY4Cg?si=mjKn2oLjqAb36hPU
- havaloc 6mo agoThat's not what the video insinuates.
- hermanzegerman 6mo agoYes you're right. I meaned a different video, but I can't find it right now. I've looked it up, and back then MacOS had a bug which exacerbated that issue. Here is an article https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/23/m1-mac-users-report-excessive-ssd-wear/ https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/23/m1-mac-users-report-exc...
- windowsrookie 6mo agoYou originally stated "Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles" Do you have a source for these "countless bricked SSD's"?
- hermanzegerman 6mo agoHere was the Video I meant back then. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuv4TIjk-I&pp=ygURZGVhZCBNYWNCb29rcyBzc2Q%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuv4TIjk-I&pp=ygURZGVhZCBNYWN...