How To Check The Health of your Mac's SSD (Full Guide)

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How can you check the health of your Mac's SSD? It's easy! Just a few minutes in the Terminal app, and you'll be able to find out. I'll also discuss how long your SSD might last, and show you how to work out how much data you write to your SSD every day.
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./smartctl -a /dev/disk0 (or whatever your disk is called
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00:00 How to use Smartmontools
01:38 Use Terminal to Check SSD Health
04:24 Using DriveDx
05:07 How to tell what condition your SSD is in
08:26 How to find out how much data you write each day
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@Frogly7 2 года назад

Thank you for making this video this really relieved me

@CoachThomas 2 года назад

Hi Mate, great video and its great to see an Aussie on RU-vid. My Macbook Air is my daily driver and I've hit 187 TB since March 2021! Keep up the good work.

@johnxvi5538 6 месяцев назад

Did your mac die?

@yvanherbu7734 2 месяца назад

my 2020 MacBook Pro m1 already at 149TB... @Coach any feedback about yours??

@niskalaroepa 2 года назад

hey thanks for this video! i was a bit terrified after that old news about memory swap issues. after checking my macbook ssd just like you did, now i'm pretty confident this device will last me longer than it has to 🙌🏻

@DigiDriftZone 2 года назад

Just out of interest what TBW are you sitting at? - is that the 8GB ram model?

@niskalaroepa 2 года назад

@@DigiDriftZone around 16TBW after 6 months or so usage, mostly for graphic design (illustrator and photoshop) and stream movies at night. and yea i have the 8 gigs of ram model

@DigiDriftZone 2 года назад

@@niskalaroepa Ah, that's very low! - I'm at 208 TBW after 12 months with the 16GB model but a lot of video capture and programming.

@super_hero2 2 года назад

@@niskalaroepa Just to let you know, Samsung 256 gb ssd have a warranty of 150 TBW and it is one of the best SSD maker out there in terms of reliability and speed. Sure your SSD might last a lot longer than that, just like anything else with warranty, but you will loose the safeguard of the warranty and in the case of M1 chip, your laptop will become trash if it fail after it hits warranty value which no-one know by the way because Apple intentionally hide it.

@tomsun3159 3 месяца назад

@@super_hero2 The TBW of the SSD depends of the capacity (512 has double of the 256 and half of the 1 TB variant) and on the tier Pro has a higher TBW than the consumer grade. There are big differences in TBW at the same size from brand to brand and tier to tier. 600TBW for 1 TB of capacity is a usual given value for higher end consumer grade, it can go down to 300 TBW for lower consumer grade and can go up to 2200 TBW for higher end pro grade (i own 2 2TB NVME-SSDs with 4400 TBW specced), usually the faster the SSD the lower the given TBW/storage due to thermal stress.

@VoicefulRiver Год назад

I was pretty worried about my SSD wearing out because I saw it use swap a couple of times. And then using your methods in this video I learned that mine wouldn't reach a 300TBW for another 86 years.

@plasteredlips 8 месяцев назад

same here, I was worried, until I realised that mine would reach in 190 years.

@tomsun3159 3 месяца назад

For 90% of the users its completely irelevant as the 2021 base model still in 2024 is tentimes overkill performancewise, the other 10% who could have an issue are aware of that topic and would spec their machine according their needs (RAM, Storage, CPU-cores, GPU-cores). If you don't know what machine you need the base config would be almost overkill. If you are a lomgtime Highperfomance Computer user, you know what you need. As i tend to use my gear over several years and i don't like swapping i searched for a 16GB version of a used M1 MBA, would it be necessary? probably not.

@Le_Lys_Eclectique 2 года назад

Ciao and thank you for the great video! I've watched a video where you explain how to setup different browsers in order to avoid they write on the HD. But cannot find the video anymore. Cannot remember the title.... Thank youuuuu!!!!! ❤️

@LoftechUK 2 года назад

Great cover of SSD drives. When people get used drives can check the life. Thank you as I’ve just bought a large ssd and came with the quote refurbished 😂. Nice to know what that means. Also I have been informed that the ssd info can be flashed so it’s like when you buy an 80’s car that’s been rewound on the clock. Moto is never trust what you get

@tommysuditomo8943 2 года назад

Hi, thank you, nice video and information! if I may ask; is smartmonools can read/check external SSD?

@ramiramadan15 Год назад

I noticed Final Cut Pro is writing a lot of gigs to the SSD in activity monitor. Even when working from an external drive.

@pawelkukulka8291 2 года назад

374 TB written in 13 months, averaging roughly between 2-3tb a day. No spectacular use - just browsers with multiple tabs and ms office. It’s pretty scary!

@DigiDriftZone 2 года назад

I am assuming this is with the 8GB of ram version? - they really shouldn't even sell this configuration, it hammers the SSD with SWAP use.

@HaydnMowbray 2 года назад

That's significant use for that type of workload. I use mine a lot harder than that with the addition of Photoshop editing and multitrack audio. Mine is 16 gig and 500gig SSD. I've only written 40 TB. It used to write a lot more initially but one of the software updates reduced that significantly and it doesn't write much to the SSD at all unless I've got a lot of stuff open. . I also primarily now use Safari and ensure that horrible memory hogs like Facebook get closed regularly as they gradually chew up significant amounts of memory - 2gigs for a webpage??????

@mike1207976 2 года назад

I’m gonna say you mixed up GB with TB. Websites are never that big. 🤣🤣

@khanhvovan5227 Год назад

how is ur lap now ? sir

@2392youngmoney Год назад

@@HaydnMowbray how is your Mac at the moment, in terms of swap? I’m looking at the MBP 14 16gb 512. I want to edit video and photos. I don’t mind not multitasking if that will decrease swap, but it seems like even using one app at a time can cause quite high swap usage.

@ISmokeI 2 года назад

How do you do the evening of writing across an ssd, so it writes over the cells with the least wear and use.

@JUSTINSAVIOCLARKE 2 года назад

you can use disk drill as well to keep track of ssd usage

@tommysuditomo8943 2 года назад

Thank you for the information.. Anyway, can you explain how to use Disk Drill that you mention?

@homer2384 10 месяцев назад

Amazing!!

@tonyhamilton9942 Год назад

Great vid! Thanks for the explanation. What if I'm actually writing WAY TOO MUCH data? That being 20,72 TB written in less than a month on a brand new 256 gb Air (1% already). I have a base model Air as well and I do heavy Lightroom stuff + a little multitasking at the same time on a daily basis. Swap memory often reaches 8-10 MB when I'm working on large RAW catalogs. I know the base Air isn't the best option for my particular workflow, so I wasn't planning on keeping this device for more than a year, but after doing the math it seems like I need to upgrade ASAP :(

@CreatedTech Год назад

You'll be fine for a year, but long term with that kind of constant swap usage you might not be.

@harshahl6287 2 года назад

To paste to terminal, ctrl+shift+v

@alexwestgate8860 6 месяцев назад

Hi is there a way to create som sort of shortcut to use, allias or something so we can refer to our ssd storage on terminal much more easily then having to do the whole lot of code again and again? thanks!

@Quet_Weilan 10 месяцев назад

I have an external hard drive connected to store some data and movies. When I download movies, will it also be counted as being written to the SSD? Because I am currently writing 1.3tb for 20 days, and I may only write about 30gb every day.

@MohammadSalah1979 7 месяцев назад

happy new year how about the External ssd what the Terminal command

@aaronbrown4366 2 года назад

Anyone with refurbished M1’s from apple care to share what TB’s were written to the ssd when you first got it? If it wasn’t replaced during their refurbished process, I’m curious to see what they’re ok with sending out.

@benifrani9647 Год назад

My 2018 Macair bought in 2018 new is still rocking and mine said on disk drill full version and on the above free software that LP used 2% only and SSD life left 99% left. LBA written 8TB, total read 17TB , power cycles 376, I use it for daily software testing .no video editing.

@bestbringit 2 года назад

Hi I'm using windows via bootcamp on my macbook should I run these apps from mac os or windows os and if I should run it from mac os will the windows usage of the ssd count ? Please help

@karanveersinghdulku 11 месяцев назад

Crystal disk info is not supported on mac ?

@toetie2019 Год назад

Thanks a lot for this video. Really insightful. With my M1 MacBook Pro I do nothing but use Whatsapp and use RU-vid. Yet the machine says I've written 35TB's? The device is from November 2021 with 266 SSD on hours. I normally hate to ask a question like this, but is this a reason for concern? Thank you.

@NewEraMed Год назад

how do you remove/ uninstall the package?

@danyeasy 2 года назад

You can use

@hades996 7 месяцев назад

My Macbook Air M1 late 2020 (256GB) is at 747 TBW written already.

@izzzzzz6 4 месяца назад

On 2015 Retina it did not show written and read history in terminal so i stopped there. What is the terminal command to uninstall smart tools?

@santasl 2 года назад

87,4 TB Data Written on my MacMini M1 over the span of one year. Daily work and entertainment machine (google chrome with many many tabs and heavy video watching ). I have done no crazy benchmark tests. My macbook air on the other hand only has 2TB for roughly 8 months of usage. I use the macbook air more as a terminal and work machine when I am on the road. Thanks to covid this didnt really happen that much, so mostly 20 hrs/week of usage (roughly) And almost no video playback.

@Scyth3934 2 года назад

Well how much RAM does your M1 Mini have? My M1 Air is the base model (8GB ram) and with many, many (~80 at once, sometimes up to 120) tabs open, it uses swap (SSD storage) to free up memory, leaving me with sometimes up to 1tb written per day

@domdomdomme1203 2 года назад

Is there any way to check without installing any third party program?

@luiscastro1362 8 месяцев назад

If by doing video edition on imovie for example, I use it always connected to an external hdd, I save every file there, and never in the computer itself, will it wear my MacBook's ssd in any way?

@milocero 2 года назад

Base model MacBook Air m1 here, I use it for 3d animations in blender and music production and I was having an issue with rendering a 10 sec animation with a scene stacked with objects and shaders that was using around 3 tb of swap for that operation alone, reason being apparently the blender version I was using was being ran through rosetta, now with the apple silicon version its much better, so gotta be aware of doing memory heavy tasks on non native applications that a use a ton more swap.

@daveadams6421 2 года назад

SSD's have come a long way in regards to reliability. Always keep in mind that extremes in temperature can cause havoc to electronics. But for most people running their laptops you have nothing to worry about. That said, always have data backup habits built into your routine 😎

@Maxnchees 2 года назад

Thanks For the Video… I was very helpful…!

@techboung Год назад

i just bought a second hand macbook pro m1 and the total byte written has gone over 200 TB(about 213 Tbs) already. and the indicator say my ssd life percentage used is 15 with 85% health. is it okay to use? can the ssd fail before the life percentage used went up to 100%?

@alexandrakovaleva7874 2 года назад

58TB written after total of 65 days(or 877GB per day) of daily job routine da hell. I've purchased my Mac m1 pro in November 30. P.S - I mostly do Mobile development w/flutter & swift (and casual ml)

@luis_palma-learner 2 года назад

when I run the commands on terminal this message shows up: "SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it." someone help? please

@cbm80amiga 2 года назад

My MBA 8/256 used since June 2021 already wrote 97TB of data. SSDs in my PC laptops wrote much less during 2-3 years. Something is wrong in MacOS

@krystledawne 2 года назад

Using lots of swap?

@cbm80amiga 2 года назад

@@krystledawne It seems that Safari writes more. It is strange because MacMini 2014 with 4GB RAM doesn't use SSD that much.

@jamesgohigh26 Год назад

@@cbm80amiga photolibraryd and clouds are known to write tons of data to disk every day

@lucasmatteus1386 2 года назад

I have a MBA 8/256. actually 70TBW in 6 months, it's bad?

@allyouneedtorelax 9 месяцев назад

thx bro,,,,

@Mew_Kitten 2 года назад

I’m getting no such file or directory, and the others I’m getting command not found

@itdataandprocessanalysis3202 Год назад

How important are the TBR (=Terrabytes Read, Data Units Read) for the SSD's lifespan?

@calvinatdrifterstudio8438 Год назад

Read data causes no measurable wear on the SSD. You can ignore Data Units Read when considering the lifespan of your SSD.

@rafaelbueno_rs 3 месяца назад

My mac air m1 256ssd 8gb ram has been on for 25 days and i got 3.11TB of data written. It is 124gb per day. I use it to work everyday.

@avikmukherjee1682 2 года назад

With my 50+ days usage is got around 628gb written

@TheRattan 3 месяца назад

How do i uninstall the smartmontools. It is not showing in the application folder after the install.

@ktomcruz 2 года назад

I'm at 50+ TB written after a little over a year of usage. This'll most likely last longer than I need it to, but its still a shame that it is soldered. Hopefully, Apple gives a convincing trade-in price in the future.

@gawin_art689 2 года назад

6 months and 110 TB here haha

@aaronbrown4366 2 года назад

I was so nervous to check this lol. I got a refurbished Mac Mini (8/265) from Back Market about a month ago. It was the first series from Nov 2020. All I’ve done with it over the past month is basic computing and some benchmark test to make sure everything was up to standard. The Drive DX test shows 2.5 total TB’s written and in perfect health. Lord knows where this thing was for the last year and a half, but glad I got a good copy. I’ll be using it mainly for photo editing with LR and PS which is now optimized for the M1. Like you said, Kyle, really wish Apple wouldn’t have soldered these things, though, even if they wanted to have us use all in-house hardware for later upgrades, I would have taken that.

@bodigames 2 года назад

even with a 256GB model you can write 150TB. meaning you can use it for at least 3 years but in 99% of cases you can use it even longer. If you got a 1TB model you can write 600TB meaning you can use it for 12 years... you have nothing to worry about

@techboung Год назад

what model of your macbook and how many TB now and does it still work fine?

@techboung Год назад

@@bodigames i just bought an mac m1 air second hand which already has 213 TB written already. but the dxdrive shows that life percentage used is 15% and the health is 85%. should i trust the health indicator?

@murk.mp4760 2 года назад

I was wondering where that video of checking my ssd's health was. Here it is!

@71bhavaneshmogilichendu29 Год назад

can someone please tell me how to delete Smartmontools because I am afraid that it might drain the battery

@daily_knowledge 2 года назад

Can you please make a revisited video on the 2020 M1 Air .

@alexandermelendez 2 года назад

HI! I got my MBP pro M1 one year ago, does anyone have and idea of why the battery Health is in 87% with 95 cicles?? And how much time can Work fine… thanks :)

@sprakenite 2 года назад

That aint right, 95 cycles and already at 87%?

@alexandermelendez 2 года назад

@@sprakenite i took it to technical support and they indicated that everything was ok with the M1…. ?! In One more year it would be in 70% or less…. Any ideas of wtf…

@DXFilmz Год назад

@@alexandermelendez My M1 Max is a year old already with 39 cycles and it's 91%. I barely use it compared to my windows pc

@Sulphur_67 Месяц назад

i mnow this video is o,d but i’ll be getting an used m1 mac mini 16gb and i’ll check how much it’ll be used, just anxious about it dying since it’s not replaceable

@hristomir-zw6bg Месяц назад

I have a MacBook with 10% available spare threshold. Should i be worried?

@gayatribuildingmaterial565 2 года назад

Upgrade ram on MacBook air

@aaditayprajapat1996 2 года назад

Yes bro

@learnwithnaimul 2 года назад

Based on my 47 days cycle (didn't use any external storage) my yearly use is 2.65 terabytes. ❤

@Mr.Singhhh 2 года назад

Which mac do you recommend for Programming? I currently bought 13 pro yesterday but still confused between 14 inches and 13 as i use illustrator and photoshop sometimes

@ildafons Год назад

how to check SSD on M1 2020?

@xiujuly7836 2 года назад

Hi I'm a student , planning to buy air m1 ,but couldn't decide to choose between 8GB(512GB SSD) or 16GB(256GB SSD). Can anyone recommend me ?

@JacklapottTv Год назад

take the 16GB version it's better

@verosanz Год назад

Hi! How can I uninstall smartmontools from my MBP? The terminal keeps "command not found" when entering 'sudo smart-pkg-uninstall'

@kyj000411 Год назад

Try sudo /usr/local/sbin/smart-pkg-uninstall

@runlee7971 Год назад

@@kyj000411 It was helpful. Thank you!

@brianpratt2432 Год назад

I can't get this to work for some reason

@corpuzone 2 года назад

On normal usages, a typical user is not going to have their ssd crap out that fast. You were trying to push the limits and that’s useful for us detailed oriented people lol. For my use on potential future mbp 14 m1 pro, I’m doing web development which is not going to kill the ssd in 1 yr. I’d like to get out at least 5-8 years. That’s all I need 👨‍💻

@bluesjeon Год назад

how can you get 4tb internal ssd on m1 macbook air which is limit to 2tb?

@whyredfire 4 месяца назад

That's his MacBook Pro, his Air had 256gb.

@Dopamine-.- 8 месяцев назад

Guys I had my MacBook Air M1 for 2 years now and I don't download a lot of data on it. Usually I use separate SSD for the large files that I don't use frequently. and I got Data Units Read: 36,926,642 [18.9 TB] Data Units Written: 29,620,137 [15.1 TB] isn't a little too much ?

@jemifajne7531 3 месяца назад

that's seems to be okay, I have 4,10TB data units written and 0% percentage used as my terminal says, and I have been using Mac 275 days, so its something like 14GB data per day when calculated

@hanscfs 2 года назад

I just calculated it. I use 500 GB per day in my M1 MBP (it's my daily driver). Damn.

@hanscfs 2 года назад

Based on my calculation, if the lifespan of my 256GB SSD is 2 Petabyte, it will survive for 10 years though.

@orcusbrawlstars2716 2 года назад

@@hanscfs thats reassuring to hear. What do u do on your laptop though

@hanscfs 2 года назад

@@orcusbrawlstars2716 I work at the biggest OTT company (such as RU-vid, Netflix, etc.) in my country. I do SEO. So I open and audit a lot of pages that contain video every day. I also do a lot of meetings (around 4 to 10 meetings everyday). I use Microsoft Edge. I don’t really know whether the drive usage is normal or not for such tasks.

@ildafons 2 года назад

@@hanscfs How do you know it is 2 petabytes?

@jvrviegas 2 года назад

For developers like me, these numbers could be even worse. With 10 days of usage, i was able to make 365 GB of data written per day and a total of 3.65 TB data written. I'm actually not worried because i pretend to use it only for about 1 year, perhaps 1 year and a half. My Macbook Air is the base model and i'm a full stack developer. Despite that, it's a great machine and it's exceeding expectations.

@tiendatnguyen6758 2 года назад

I took the M1 Air 16gb ram, 256gb SSD, for me more than 1 month, I used only near 2tb. With 1 year, around 30TB, it last like 2000Tb so like, hell yeah

@jvrviegas 2 года назад

@@tiendatnguyen6758 It was a really intensive use hahaha. I'm with 6 months now and i'm already at 23.2 TB. Just to notice, mine is the 8 GB version

@tonyhamilton9942 Год назад

How about 23,1 TB in 18 days? I feel like you're the only person that could actually understand how much wear my SSD is getting. I have a base model Air as well and I do heavy Lightroom stuff + a little multitasking at the same time on a daily basis. Swap memory often reaches 8-10 MB when I'm working on large RAW catalogs. I also wanted to keep this device for a year or so, but I'm starting to think I need to upgrade ASAP :/

@dumitru123-q3u Год назад

Why not to buy an external SSD, and do all the heavy file transfers there? You can get an 1TB NVMe drive using an 40Gbps case, which can give you nearly the same write/read speeds as your internal SSD (maybe even better) under 200$

@abhilashmacherla2734 11 месяцев назад

Hey how do you install oracle on MacBook Air M1 Thanks in advance

@jii808 2 года назад

LOL wow, I've been having S.M.A.R.T. error warnings. Just had my 2016 MBP HD replaced 14 months ago. Since then I've written 550 TB on a 256GB HD and DriveDX says I've used 188% of life percentage. Just ordered a new MBP before this fails again :(

@myrealusername2193 2 года назад

Wait do you mean with apple? Because 2016 MBPs have soldered SSDs. I replaced my 2015 MacBook Air SSD pretty recently with a 500gb one (coming from 128gb) and I definitely think Apple should bring that back as just a second m.2 or even their proprietary one (adapters are super cheap) that they might offer for slightly slower but cheaper storage

@jii808 2 года назад

@@myrealusername2193 Ya, I had to replace the entire integrated logic board with CPU, GPU, RAM, HD in order to just replace the hard drive. Now the HD is failing again after 14 months. I think because my 256GB is close to maxxed out and I have so many browser tabs open that my 16GB RAM maxxes out and swaps to disk storage constantly. Just upgraded to 32GB RAM. I have to wait 6-7 weeks though. Not sure my current MBP is going to last that long.

@DigiDriftZone 2 года назад

@@jii808 This is not uncommon for "Pro" and power users. I opted to go for 1TB on my latest Macbook Pro M1 to give it hopefully at least 4-5 years of life as the TBW scales with the drive size.

@jii808 2 года назад

@@DigiDriftZone Unfortunately I know this now but the wait times for a new M1 are long. I just opted for 32GB RAM and 512GB SSD - it's still a 6-7 week wait. 1TB SSD was an extra 2 weeks. Hopefully 3-yr Apple Care plus buying on my credit card gives 1 extra year will cover me for the next 4 years. The extra RAM should help stop the memory swapping to SSD.

@mycodingchannel9690 2 года назад

My MacBook Air, used only for 6 months, has a health rating of "Low"

@sprakenite 2 года назад

Probably has covid 😂

@TheSlayrnumber1 2 года назад

What happened to the video about "cleaning up" MacOS and getting rid of unnecessary "files". It seemed like you were going to go more in depth than the usual "unused or cache clearing". It seemed like you were talking about system files or settings using code? I already know how to clear cache, turn system settings off in system preferences, etc... I am looking for an in-depth "techie" guide to remove unnecessary settings/info. If anyone knows of one, I think someone phrased it "remove the head of the OS"?

@musamurat 9 месяцев назад

Dont work terminal why?

@_L583_ 2 года назад

My Mac is 5 years old and used daily. I have about half your one year usage and 1 Percent used up. I think the SSD will not be the first thing to fail, in a long shot.

@DigiDriftZone 2 года назад

Mine failed in under 5 years on a 2014 MacBook Pro - it really depends on your use.

@TheChaz96 2 года назад

This issue is more of a concern for m1 macs I believe

@basewrecker9222 2 года назад

@@TheChaz96 Yes cuz the ssd's are soldered to the board so if they fail you can't really replace them yourself.

@maurob844 2 года назад

Why not use Activity Monitor? It has all the information and it comes with the MacOs.

@jamesgohigh26 Год назад

it doesn't have accumulated info.. stupid

@ildafons Год назад

I don't have s bin

@Captainjackstar 2 года назад

me watching this video with my macbook air m1: FUCK

@lava-ru5ue 2 года назад

How did I have 3 separate ad breaks in the first 3 minutes of the video? + I was at double speed so literally 3 ads in 1.5min of content This is tough. + always the same ad

@em8969 8 месяцев назад

how would I uninstall this program?? please help me

@JAYLATINZ 7 месяцев назад

I used this command to remove smartmontools : sudo /usr/local/sbin/smart-pkg-uninstall

@tourtal 2 года назад

Bruh. I’m at 554.3 TB written.

@Techie21 2 года назад

30.7 each day, 4TB total written. I got this iMac 24" on the 2nd of December 2021.

@yodabolt1247 2 года назад

I'm a year in with 43.1 TB written. Pretty sure this SSD will outlive the computer's usable lifespan

@e.o9470 2 года назад

SSDs are mainly not for long term storage.

@Etienne85 2 года назад

Looking at your values: 740 total hours suggests 2h of real usage per day (over a year). 105TBW gives an average 141GB write rate per hour. Comparing to my recently bought unit (base model), 33 TBW after less than a month (2% consumed). which related to 148 total hours, gives 222GB per hour rate (even higher that yours) I'm doing web development and lots of multitasking so obviously heavy swapping but not particularly relieving There seems to be huge figures' difference depending on people's usage.

@CreatedTech 2 года назад

That "power on" number isn't accurate. This laptop was used up to 8 hours per day over a 12 month period.

@Etienne85 2 года назад

@@CreatedTech I thought it could also be linked to macbook often going standby. In my case (150h for nearly a month) also seems underrated. Other than that, seems like the main culprit of my heavy write rate was a tool (docker) roughly eating 4GB memory. Since I shut it down, device came back to much normal write rate... I was planning to move it anyway so no big deal. Quite a relief, as I was thinking to use workarounds like booting system from external SSD to preserve internal drive or even resell MBA. But now I think it is such pleasant device to use even given my heavy workload.

@mike1207976 2 года назад

Zero worries. Data has shown they can have well over 5000TB written and still have no issues. All of my macs with SSDs are never shut off with data constantly coming and going for years now with zero issues.

@71bhavaneshmogilichendu29 Год назад

how to delete smartmontools?

@verosanz Год назад

i'm also interested in knowing

@HwL01 2 года назад

I’m more concerned about the battery than ssd, my previous laptop on an older 256gb ssd after 7 yrs still works fine. So I doubt my M1 ssd cannot last as long or longer 😬

@tvkkpt 2 года назад

But the battery is replaceable, the SSD isn’t

@gamecenterjerry 2 года назад

I just checked mine, and over around almost 6 years of usage from my macbook I only then read 100tb, and wrote 90tb

@WRNPR 2 года назад

The smaller the ssd the worst. I have 1tb so I have nothing to worry about.

@DigiDriftZone 2 года назад

Sitting at 208 TB written after 1 year on my M1 MacBook Pro, probably 3-4 years left before it is a paperweight :(

@CreatedTech 2 года назад

More like 10 years at least, I explain why in the video.

@MichaelAbellera 2 года назад

experienced any slow downs?

@technologyanimals 2 года назад

@@CreatedTech Still a horrible design to have a soldered drive in a laptop. Insanity.

@CreatedTech 2 года назад

Not denying that, but at least with modern SSD technology they're very unlikely to fail. Personally I'd rather have a removable SSD.

@DigiDriftZone 2 года назад

Yes, slow downs for sure launching apps compared to when I got it and I'm on the 16GB ram version (this is after a reboot ensuring little ram use). @Created - Lab tests where you doing sequential writes in a loop is one thing, real life use is another. We install thousands of servers with SSDs (typically 0,5tb, 1tb and 2tb from different manufacturers). We see an average closer to 600-800TBW before a failure per 1TB of storage, so I am fully expecting my M1 to fail in the next 3-4 years. I have a 2014 Macbook Pro that failed in 2019 with a 256GB SSD.

@aneeshdissanayake3067 2 года назад

@076chethananand7 Год назад

864 gb in 6 months

@samirpadhan8151 2 года назад

I've got extended warranty and damage protection with insurance combined. I let go my system at its maximum capacity. I welcome any kind of hardware/software failure 🤣🤣.

@abirahmed1292 Год назад

For me it might take 5 years to reach 105 tb lol

@harshit.chitkara 2 года назад

I'm from discord!

@xyross23 2 года назад

Nobody cares bro

@sprakenite 2 года назад

My MBA M1 has 1.85 TB in four months. I guess my SSD will be good until 2040 😂

@MobileDeveloper1965 11 месяцев назад

If the ssd dies you cannot do anything so I will just buy another MacBook. I have an air with only 256 ssd. If it fails within 3 years, I will get a new MacBook from apple for free.

@janoo85 9 месяцев назад

i hate mac os u must pay for evry simple things what in windows built in .....and u need to install a third party app crasy

@S3XYEV 2 года назад

21.8 GB a day .......so conservative estimate = 47 years to go! 😎

@wicks5813 2 года назад

I m dreaming to buy M1 air, just dream but will not be true

@alexag782 Год назад

all good,but how than remove this shit smartmontolls from mac?

@mrparts 2 года назад

Lol. People are still freaking out about a this non issue?

@trickjacko8482 2 года назад

Unnecessary effort. As long as you don't top the storage you'll be fine.

@JdkshkshkNbrvUugV 8 месяцев назад

cd /usr/local/sbin gives me "no such file or directory" why?

@brightmedia1024 2 года назад

Yeah, having a bit of problems running the scan: Warning! SMART Selective Self-Test Log Structure error: invalid SMART checksum. SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing 255 0 65535 Read_scanning was never started Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. Any suggestions?