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M1 won't boot without internal storage. The point of the parent comment was not about saving data from the drive, but that the devices are landfill material on
by vetinari 4y ago
M1 won't boot without internal storage.
The point of the parent comment was not about saving data from the drive, but that the devices are landfill material once they hit tbw limits on their drives, even if they were otherwise in good condition.
- stametseater 4y agoWell you'll not hit TBW limits if you're using another drive anyway.
- smoldesu 4y agoUnless you have configured your Macbook to not use Swap, it will constantly write to the built-in drive when memory pressure is high enough.
- ehutch79 4y agoSure it will. Just checked, found a bunch of articles with 5 step instructions where one of the steps is hold the power button down.
- smoldesu 4y ago> The M1 boot process requires a working SSD to boot macOS. The SSD contains a Signed System Volume that is cryptographically sealed by Apple. No seal, no bootable System. > So if the internal drive on your M1 Mac fails completely, even an external bootable drive won't boot. Yep, your Mac is bricked. https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-bad-is-the-m1-macs-ssd-failure-problem/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-bad-is-the-m1-macs-ssd-fai...