Mac Studio M1 Max / 32 GB RAM / 2TB SSD / April 2022
Used daily for moderate "office" usage (Slack/Teams/Firefox/RDP) during office hours. Heavier usage (XCode/AndroidStudio/Lightroom/FCP) on weekends/evenings.
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 27 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 99%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 49,821,690 [25.5 TB]
Data Units Written: 29,653,584 [15.1 TB]
Host Read Commands: 773,908,710
Host Write Commands: 352,429,221
Controller Busy Time: 0
Power Cycles: 214
Power On Hours: 428
Unsafe Shutdowns: 9
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
I had to turn off Powernap to convince the thing to sleep. But whatever non sense it was doing (apparently stuck in Photos and Push Notifications), it has thankfully not burned the SSD!Addendum. I just wrote 1.7GB in the last 30mins while reading HN on Firefox, and a few other web pages. Based on that, I would say the 2GB–4GB write a day from OP are fine.