Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?
I have no idea how people are punishing their MacBooks that hard.<p>My M1 MacBook Pro (mid 2020, 16GB RAM &#x2F; 512GB SSD) has been used as a daily driver for my personal stuff (not work), so while usage may be light compared to a work machine, it has seen it&#x27;s fair share of C&#x2F;C++&#x2F;C#&#x2F;Swift&#x2F;Go&#x2F;Python code come through (studying for a master degree), as well as papers being written.<p>My battery is in a much worse state than my SSD with 92% capacity remaining.<p><pre><code>  === START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
  SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
  
  SMART&#x2F;Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
  Critical Warning:                   0x00
  Temperature:                        31 Celsius
  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    1%
  Data Units Read:                    58,248,816 [29.8 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 33,161,373 [16.9 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 1,190,184,018
  Host Write Commands:                543,373,537
  Controller Busy Time:               0
  Power Cycles:                       242
  Power On Hours:                     688
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   30
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
  Error Information Log Entries:      0
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My &quot;server&quot; (iCloud content cache and backups) which is a M1 Mac mini (2020 model from 2021, 8GB&#x2F;256GB), which has been running 24&#x2F;7 seems to be in a &quot;worse&quot; state:<p><pre><code>  === START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
  SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

  SMART&#x2F;Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
  Critical Warning:                   0x00
  Temperature:                        32 Celsius
  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    5%
  Data Units Read:                    177,894,168 [91.0 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 132,856,403 [68.0 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 2,792,877,903
  Host Write Commands:                825,466,116
  Controller Busy Time:               0
  Power Cycles:                       239
  Power On Hours:                     1,391
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   46
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
  Error Information Log Entries:      0
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Something is fishy with the power on hours though. Despite having run for over a year, it reports just under 2 months of power on hours, so it&#x27;s probably not being reported correctly.