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		fingerlocks on Feb 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes ove... My 2017 MBP is showing 97% capacity. It's my daily driver. So at this rate I can expect the SSD to last 291 years? Really? Either these numbers are bogus, or the capacity drop over time is far from linear.

wmf on Feb 24, 2021 [–]

That's just the wear capacity; an SSD can still suffer random failures at any time. The controller and DRAM aren't designed to last for decades.

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