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So the battery life is alluring me to splurge the money for this. But I’m a bit worried because my wife laptop, bought in 2018, already have a 5% health life on
by arepublicadoceu 4y ago
So the battery life is alluring me to splurge the money for this. But I’m a bit worried because my wife laptop, bought in 2018, already have a 5% health life on its nvme. I don’t worry as I can simply replace it but those macbooks have it soldered.
So I guess my question is, what’s the expected lifespan of their SSDs? My current laptop will turn 11 this year, and after battery and ssd replacement it still works great. Can I reasonably expect the same lifespan from macbooks?
- ericpauley 4y agoAre you saying it's used 5% of its total life? That seems pretty good over 3+ years, for an estimated overall lifespan of 60 years. No doubt the machine will be replaced for some other reason by then.
- arepublicadoceu 4y ago5% left. Meaning that the ssd is almost dying.
- nfriedly 4y agoI'd recommend taking it into an Apple store and asking them about it. I don't think I've ever in my life seen an SSD with less than 80-90% life left. Something has to have gone wrong for it to have burned up 95% of it's life in ~5 years of normal usage.
- dabernathy89 4y agoIIRC there was an issue early on with the M1 Macs that involved way higher than normal swap usage, and was potentially bad for SSDs. But I thought that was fixed within months.
- nfriedly 4y agoYeah, that sounds like a plausible culprit. And I wouldn't consider it outside the realm of possibility for Apple to replace the SSD for free - even if the laptop is now out of warranty.
- s3p 4y agoProbably, but only in the higher storage models. The lifespan of SSD increases dramatically as you move from 500GB to 1-2 TB. If you REALLY want the longest lasting one then go 2TB. I went 1TB when I bought a macbook pro in 2013 and it lasted for about 7 years before the logic board had some fatal error that neither me nor apple techs were able to fix.