![]() ![]() To save you reading it there are no simple answers, many causes, no consistency, huge variations in experience, Swap is one factor for same but not for many others.Īs LightandPrayer said, the simplest way of seeing the SSD life used is DriveDx but there are free terminal methods. There is a 142 page thread on MR on the topic. One way or the other, Apple is going to extract additional $ from our pockets. I suppose that the moral of the story is that if you have less RAM you may wind up using up your SSD faster. (My timing was such that I was able to avoid doing video, which isn't my thing at all.) I used my Mac more before retiring but even then I did only basic image edits because the kind of photography I did didn't require more. In both cases we are only doing basic computing processes. Heck if I can figure out what she is doing to rack up that many writes to disk! The SSD lifetime remaining indicator is at 94% with 92.2 TB written. It's been her daily user for 1 1/2 years now. On the other hand, my wife has a 2020 M1 Mac Mini with 8GB RAM/256GB SSD. According to Drive Dx it has 99% of its lifetime remaining, with a current total of 13TB of data units written. (My 2012 Mini has 16GB.) I've been running the 2018 Mini daily for a little over 2 1/2 years. However, depending on what you are doing, the system is going to doing a lot of writing to disk because of the limited RAM.įor example, I have a 2018 Intel Mac Mini with 8GB RAM and a 512GB SSD. In 2023 you can do a lot with only 8GB RAM in an Apple Silicon Mac. They will also slaughter any HDD in terms of suitability for use as startup drives. In terms of sequential reads and writes, those "slow" SSDs are probably 8x to 10x faster than the HDD in your iMac, and at least 2x faster than USB 3 / SATA 3 SSDs. There have been a lot of posts about "slow" SSDs in M2 machines with the base 256 GB SSD. Both HDDs and SSDs have gotten better over time (higher capacity, lower cost per GB), but in general, SSDs cost more per GB than HDDs. Current Macs use SSDs, which are much, much faster. All of the stock models that have 8 GB of RAM are based upon the entry-level M1 and entry-level M2 chips.Ģ56GB of SSD storage is also default on most models. Today's Apple Silicon Macs can have anywhere from 8 GB of RAM to 128 GB of RAM – depending on the SoC. My old iMac has 16GB.Īll stock Late 2009 iMacs came with 4 GB of RAM 16 GB is the official maximum. 8GB of RAM seems to be the default selection. However, the specs of today's iMac and Mac mini computers are disappointing. Recently I noticed that many applications require a more recent Mac OS, that's the reason I think about an upgrade. ![]() I own a late-2009 iMac, which is still working and a great job. ![]()
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