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Ask HN: Why not a utility to save your Mac from a software bug killing your SSD?

1 points by amichail · 3 comments · 1 min read


As you may know, MacBooks are expensive and an SSD killed by excessive writes due to software bug(s) requires a complete motherboard replacement.

So why not have a utility that would warn you when an app is writing too much? Maybe you could specify a threshold for the warning.

Would you use a utility like this to give you peace of mind, especially with MacBooks?

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FrankWilhoit

Evidently their SSDs are nonstandard, if they are soldered to the motherboard. Do they also not answer to SMART?

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