How Long Will Your MacBook's SSD Last Before It Dies?

And yet, more and more M1 devices are useless because of a failed ssd. And since the iBoot kernel (read BIOS) lives on the nand flash, if it fails, your macbook will become a paperweight!

This was an amazing breakdown bro! You explained it so well. Feel better now, but still saving everything to my external. Only using about 30 percent of my internal SSD

My 2018 macbook air quit after 3 years. Thats why the ssd cant be removed.

Thanks for good news! :)

Because of NAND soldered SSDs I will certainly buy no new laptops anymore. Only CHEAP devices for me now because I see no reason to throw away a 1000 USD device away just because a 20 USD component just died in it. That brings the value of the device down A LOT even if the other components are beyond amazing.

In last few years i have purchased like 10-15 ssd s to my computers. 4 of them altready died... I'm really glad they weren't hard soldered to the board in either case...

use external ssd nd edit there only to avoid failure use 16 gb min ram if u multitask 😅

use external ssd nd edit there only to avoid failure use 16 gb min ram if u multitask 😅

With the SSD soldered in, you should be worried about it failing. Because when it fails for one of two reasons, Apple charges premium for the repair.

The two reasons for failing are wear and sudden death. Latter caused by a component failing and causing a short. When this happens the data is possibly gone.

My 2015 MBP with 500GB just died. Rest of hardware is fine. Installed a spare 256GB and it booted fine.

I've been using my MacBook Pro every day for 8-10 hours for half a year now. DriveDx shows me that 6 tb data were written. I have the base model with 512 gb memory. If you do the math, the SSD will last me 25 years which isn't too bad :D

The problem is that is anti-consumer. Ssd is a wear part that don't have any advatage to be soldered. They shoud use m.2 interface that is small and user friendly. But they don't because in that config a lot less people will buy 200$ more for 512gb or more. And even if it takes 8 years to die is always a machine died for a stupid compontent that shoud be user upgradable. I see thinkpads that last more than 12 years and old macs surpass 10 years. you replace the hard drive and you're good to go.

So, I'll never need more than 8gb.

I thought there are companies out there now that can offer an ssd replacement even when soldered to the board

MacBook Air 2011 128GB, SSD ok after using everyday. Still have thousand of unused wear leveling blocks. Memory management is so great that endurance is so much enlarged, around 15-20 years at least for most users. I think you would experience limitations on CPU. or RAM before the SSD dies. Careful with bugs! If some app or OS version is wrongly implemented, it may write and erase the memory so much times that may kill it before you think. For me, SSD lifespan is not a problem at least on Mac computers.

This explanation gives me peace of mind, knowing my MBP 16" 2021's ssd will last a long time (hopefully).

Bios on a wear product genius

Moral of the story : An apple a day ....will never keep doctor away......it further gives heart attacks daily..😞

Thanks for releaving me from the fear of ssd collapse in my new mac m2...... way before i die.🥵👍🪻

Apple will stop support for your MacBook so much sooner.

This video was absolutely useless. There are no actual information about the SSD life expectancy of an Apple Silicon Mac. This is just speculation based on other brands. I wasted my time.

New sub here. Excellent content and very thorough and understandable. Thanks

get an external sata and partition it i can run snow leopard on my 2020 mac touchbar does not work because of os but everything else does

Nice video, I've been looking for it and really want to know. Thank you

Such a comprehensive video, amazing

Thank you so much for this video. So well edited and great info. Lots of stuff I didn't know but learned and the video is just beautifully made. Such a good quality video!

Very informative content. Much appreciated!!

All depends on how much stuff you put on it daily. Most of us really do not overwork ssd that much.

Correction: Not only SDD dies but sinc it is soldered the WOHLE DEVICE DIES 🙃

Can you swap memory with external ssd? Or only with the internal mac one?

You created a problem that didn’t even exist and solved it

Sir my Q is
If I used VMware
And install windows 10
It takes 30 GB space and i allocated 80GB space for this VMware machine.
So data on VMware os is written in this 80 GB space for this VMware machine.
And this allocated space nand chips cells die earlier .
Is it true ?
Please comment.?

This was very useful. Thank you!

If you purchase the low end models, Apple gives you 8GB of RAM, which is definitely inadequate. This guarantees that you will be caching to your SSD. If you are running a number of apps, or even just have a ton of tabs open in your browser, then you will be writing a LOT of data to your drive every day.

People who can afford to spend thousands of dollars on computers that they know cannot ever be repaired won't care, but those on a budget and struggling with debt load simply cannot afford to waste their money on devices that simple cannot be repaired.

Apple and so many other manufacturers are creating so much disposable toxic tech with guaranteed short life spans and no chance of repair. This is evil behaviour. Think twice about which tech companies you want to support.

Congratulations for this video!

TBW means nuclear strength pocket destruction

mac needs care more than my children

Thanks for the great info. Was confused with all the swap used data written news. Most importantly is to stop worrying so much and just use it.

Very informative video. Thanks 👍

I just bought a second hand macbook_m1 air and it got around 250 TB already! and it say the health is only 85% I dont know what to do

This what hold me buying macs after 2017, the device itsellf already costly and to RISKY...apple should copy surface pro 7+ way by putting modular ssd

What about external ssd??

Nice video sir

I recall with the SSD scare a few years ago , that the data written for % used gave the MacBook SSD a 9000 write cycle count .

What about SSD dying due to a different reason like faulty part, environment conditions. Still doesn’t make sense to make it non replaceable.

My TBW for MacBook Air M1 256GB model is 450TB. It's 1 year and 3 months old

Eventually someone is going to learn how to change the SSD and Ram on the M1 and M2 Macs. Their soldered to the board but they are seperate from the CPU so in theory it's possible.

Thanks mate, definitely took a weight of my chest. Was looking to get a M1 Pro but was concerned when I heard that SSD fail. By far the most comprehensive and clear video on the topic.

Let Apple still talk about ecology while it makes unrepairable computers. After all, there is no justification for soldering the SSD to the motherboard. The computer isn't slimmer because of this. It doesn't affect anything. It's pure greed. Furthermore, it's only one component that wears out (apart from the battery – which is only a problem with laptops and doesn't apply to desktop ones) and replacing it brings the computer back to life. But no! Go to the shop for another one. It's sick. And now, in addition, the system cannot be booted from an external drive.
You're throwing away so much money, and you still have to watch footage of how to take care of the drive (what % you can fill it with, what programmes not to use…), because an expensive computer will be rubbish.
Because otherwise it will turn into an expensive paperweight (don't forget Apple Care for 3 years), which is unlikely to be of much use. A computer is not a smartphone to have such a limited life.

Macs with the Apple M1 consume it much faster than those based on Intel. But leaving that aside, I've encountered more than one thread of a worn-out SSD in a MacBook (Intel-based, e.g. MBP 2016 – then 3 years have passed). Furthermore, we know nothing about these memories. And I don't wish the manufacturer to artificially limit the lifespan of my computer. I want to use it for as long as possible. All components work flawlessly, but because of the SSD, I have to get rid of it?