ℒӱḏɩę 💾☮∞🎶♲☀🔋Feb 27

Soldered on NAND means you have a garbage system. There is no exception.

NAND burns out (literally) every time you write to it. These PCs are destined for the landfill in time, as not even "installing Linux to make an old PC useful again" works to save a laptop with a fried soldered SSD.

Unless you're ready to bust out the hot air gun...

#ssd #memory #nand #enshittification #capitalism #plannedobsolescence #nvme

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@Lydie
technically: you're correct!
but practically (for the avg. customer, not datahoarders - looking at no one here 😜 or media editors) it shouldn't really matter.

at 3000 cycles with, let's say 2 tb, you can write 6 pb before wear becomes a problem. given you left enough space and the firmware distributes writes across the drive.

stumbled about a post writing about this a few days ago:
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/26/how-long-will-my-macs-ssd-last/

… not talking about having a faulty chip - that WILL ruin your day.

How long will my Mac’s SSD last?

Doesn’t macOS wear out internal SSDs quickly because of all the data it writes to them? Will my Mac’s SSD wear out prematurely? How can I tell?

The Eclectic Light Company
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@speckmantel That said....... I've had multiple non-datahoarding related SSDs burn out. Those old 16GB / 32 GB SSDs can't take as much abuse.
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@Lydie right again.
but in all fairness … that's the size of a 5 bucks micro-sd these days.
hell, even my 2,5 " ssds (sata) with 128 gb failed me after two years back then. the current 1 and 2 tb ones are working fine for more than 5 years now. although being filled to 90 % with windows, mac and linux partitions and games.


… jeah … aaaand they are replaceable since they are m.2. buuuut, that doesn't help my point right now, so pls. simply ignore it :-D
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@speckmantel Cheers!
Feb 27 at 7:23pmWeb