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My 3 month old 8gb MBP

  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    1%
  Data Units Read:                    53,339,111 [27.3 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 49,807,244 [25.5 TB]

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Here's mine, 8GB M1 Air with 314 power on hours

  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    3%
  Data Units Read:                    231,234,195 [118 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 182,951,675 [93.6 TB]

btw. this is my macbook pro 16gb 2019 (intel) with ~800 hours:

    Available Spare:                    100%
    Available Spare Threshold:          99%
    Percentage Used:                    0%
    Data Units Read:                    91,665,449 [46,9 TB]
    Data Units Written:                 88,819,714 [45,4 TB]

heavy usage, with vm and i've written to the 1tb nvme disk multiple times and needed to clean stuff to get free space (multiple times)

> heavy usage, with vm and i've written to the 1tb nvme disk multiple times and needed to clean stuff to get free space (multiple times)

This is me all the time. Thank you for validating it's not just me.

check what's in iosnoop. I'm 100% sure it's tons of small (~4kb) writes all the time by some program.

My 3.5 year old 8GB MBP:

  Available Spare:                    79%
  Available Spare Threshold:          2%
  Percentage Used:                    15%
  Data Units Read:                    251,550,023 [128 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 228,761,896 [117 TB]

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