Complaints about the potential lifespan of Apple Silicon Mac storage are causing concern that the current crop of M1 Macs could stop working within a few years — and have been stoked by unanswered questions, unreliable data, and a silent Apple.
Since the middle of February, social media postings by some M1 Mac users looking into the health of their computer’s storage have raised potential issues that they see with their new devices. It is believed that the onboard storage may reach a point where it becomes unusable at a rate some users believe is too fast to be practical.The problem stems from a limitation that solid state drives have, in that each cell can only be written to a finite number of times before it fails. This is caused by the repeated erasure of a cell before new data is written, which can wear down the cells to a point where they don’t hold a charge.
