I've been on to Apple support (absolutely useless when it comes to hardware issues) and my device is already out of it's one year warranty period. I have Samsung NVMe SSDs in my gaming rig that are years old and used every day and only have a few TBs of write cycles. At this rate my drive will most likely fail in the coming months and when it does it's the end of my Mac Mini as it has the RAM and SSD soldered to the board and can't be replaced. The SoC combines the 8-Core CPU, the 8-Core GPU, the image processor, SSD controller, 16-Core Neural Engine, unified memory architecture (RAM), and many other. Now I know that the low RAM in this device is reported to have resulted in a lot of swap to the SSD but this is definitely a huge problem for these machines. So imagine my surprise when I see that the drive is at 50% of its lifetime writes after it has written a RIDICULOUS 823TB of data to the drive over 95 days of power on time. I use it every day as a daily driver for web development, nothing too stressful or resource hungry is ever running on it except Visual Studio Code and a browser with a handful of tabs open. Apple Mac mini M1 Chip (Late 2020, 16Gb, 256Gb) Brazilbox : Apple BTO Mac Mini Desktop Computer, M1 Chip with 8-Core CPU and 8-Core GPU, 16GB Memory, 1TB SSD, Gigabit Ethernet, Late. So, I was doing a bit of housekeeping and decided to do a quick SMART check on my 1 year old M1 Mac Mini (8G/256GB). The M1 mini also has the T2 chip and realizes that the drive belongs to another Mac, and wants you to reinstall the operating system on the drive, so the M1s T2 chip can securely mark it with its own scent.

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