After the launch of the Mac products equipped with Apple M1 self-developed chips, the new generation of products received rave reviews and was greatly welcomed by users. However, shortly after the launch, it was discovered that there was a problem of abnormally fast SSD life. The SSD used on the M1 Mac device had a TBW write life consumption rate much higher than normal.
Recently, Apple released the macOS 11.4 update and confirmed that related issues have been fixed. Apple said that it is updating and revising the system’s statistical method of SSD status to ensure that the SSD health detection tool can correctly read accurate data. However, before the fix, some netizens pointed out that this was due to a problem with the M1 processor, which could not be solved by macOS updates; they also pointed out that whenever a non-M1 dedicated APP (which requires Rosetta compilation) is used, it will cause a lot of writing It also refers to the low memory size version of the M1 Mac will cause the system to switch data between SSD and RAM in a large amount, resulting in a large number of write actions.
Can this update really solve the problem of abnormal SSD lifespan? It may take a while to observe, but users who encounter SSD-related issues can try the update.