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by odo1242 110 days ago
Socketed RAM is fine, but what do you mean by storage doesn’t fail often? It’s usually the first part that fails on any computer.
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Not since we got rid of spinning rust. Most common failures are batteries, and the parts of the computer subject to direct abuse by the user: keyboard, connectors, the display, etc.
My Macbook M1 which I use extensively since 2021:

Data Units Read : 1267900331 (649.16 TB)

Data Units Written : 904681650 (463.20 TB)

power_cycles : 667

power_on_hours : 9611

and yet it's still only:

available_spare : 100%

available_spare_threshold : 99%

percentage_used : 16%

I don't expect it to fail anytime soon.

On my M1 Air I have: Percentage Used: 4% Data Units Read: 564,731,366 [289 TB] Data Units Written: 182,194,700 [93.2 TB] and I thought I was using it extensively haha.