• skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    FWIW, and not trying to be an apologist as I find their pricing insane, they at least seem to be using good SSDs. I’ve found over the last 10 years that SSD life can vary wildly. Just some light-access databases destroyed some consumer-grade SSDs and hybrid drives’ SSD portions. A couple in less than a year.

    Have a dev mac that I absolutely constantly murder the SSD on daily over the last 3 or so years. I’m talking gigabytes of data written daily 5 days a week. Available spare sectors is still 100%, and percentage “used” (which granted, is a vendor-specific life metric) is 5%.

    That being said, I’ll still be hating on them for soldering the SSD to the motherboard. That is the real crime.

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      1 day ago

      Omg they solder the nvme. Disgusting.

      Whoa I checked they use raw nand chips right on the main board. Certainly helps with size but you are totally locked in forever with that size (short of some serious soldering skills to replace)

      At least you can replace it easier on the m4 mini

      https://youtu.be/eLtE2kMTVOQ