> "most SSDs only last for about 100-200TB of write"
My 3.5-year old MacBook Pro has 119 TB of writes, and still claims 79% "available spare":
Available Spare: 79%
Available Spare Threshold: 2%
Percentage Used: 15%
Data Units Read: 256,111,725 [131 TB]
Data Units Written: 232,470,299 [119 TB]
Host Read Commands: 2,872,362,421
Host Write Commands: 1,547,764,735
That said, my 1-month old M1 MacBook Air is already up to 7 TB writes, so seems to be writing at a significantly higher rate. Both are 8GB machines.