
SMART tools all of which gave different usage data. I have been investigating this "issue" as well. SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSEDįor one, reads don't matter with SSDs, only writes. St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat Optional Admin Commands (0x0004): Frmw_DL Smartctl 7.2 r5155 (local build)Ĭopyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, = START OF INFORMATION SECTION = 2) What is this SSDs actual lifetime writing ability? 3) When is my SSD actually expected to fail 4) What is Apple's position on this and what action are they taking to address it?

My questions are 1) is smartctl correctly reporting SSD data write usage.

Assuming this SSD has a lifetime ability to write 150TB, this disk is expected to have issues in approximately 2.8 years. The the smartctl tool reports that my M1 MacBook Air has written 12.3 TB since being purchased in mid-December. In the past few weeks it's been reported that M1 SSDs are writing a sufficient amount of data to their drives such that it could render the drive at its end of life in a few years.
