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To: Doren who wrote (212444)6/5/2023 4:46:01 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round  Read Replies (1) of 213177
 
One good thing about SSDs is their life is measurable as a percentage of data written to them, and utilities like DriveDx can do that for you. Apparently when they get down to around 20% I hear it's time to look into replacing one.

Hard drive life has far more voodoo involved, even with S.M.A.R.T. data. Usually they just start showing bad blocks, give data corruption, or die outright.

SSDs are also far more reliable in general than HDs too, not to mention substantially faster.

If you don't want a Mac Studio, you could always go for the 24-inch iMac. By this time next year they should have M3 chips in them.
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