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Apple SSD Guide 2023 | Best Portable MacBook SSD | Techable
Solid-State Drive or SSD has gained mainstream attention over the years despite its cost. Is it really worth to have an apple SSD for MacBook?

That is all wrong, again. Apple acquired Anobit and started making their own SSDs, hardware and software, at that point. Fusion drives are no longer made at all.You clearly confusing mobile storage with desktop storage, Apple does not fabricate SSDs.
At max all that Apple has done is SSHD, not SSDs (which are hybrids) they call Fusion Drives, and this are not used in their laptops for obvious reasons, those pack Samsung SSDs as I already stated.
Apple pretty much using Toshiba SSDs nowadays, wasn't aware they not currently using Samsung which was present on previous gen, What types of SSD do different series of MacBook Air has? Its differences and specs.![]()
Apple SSD Guide 2023 | Best Portable MacBook SSD | Techable
Solid-State Drive or SSD has gained mainstream attention over the years despite its cost. Is it really worth to have an apple SSD for MacBook?news.techable.com
You claim Fusion drivers are no longer made, yet Apple is still selling the latest iMac with Fusion drives, at this point the topic is not only going off topic, but you keep making up as you go, iMac - Technical SpecificationsThat is all wrong, again. Apple acquired Anobit and started making their own SSDs, hardware and software, at that point. Fusion drives are no longer made at all.
the Macs made since 2018 have a T2 bridge that acts as the storage and south bridge and that is an iPhone derived chip which has an onboard storage controller. This technology stack is identical to the storage stack on the iPhone X and newer. These machines don’t even take off the shelf NVMe or SATA SSDs and can’t boot from them at all, though they are supported for additional storage.
The article stops before 2018 and the T2 chip but here’s a tear down of one of the first T2 Macs: MacBook Pro 13" Touch Bar 2018 Teardown![]()
Apple SSD Guide 2023 | Best Portable MacBook SSD | Techable
Solid-State Drive or SSD has gained mainstream attention over the years despite its cost. Is it really worth to have an apple SSD for MacBook?news.techable.com
These are older models they continue to sell. If you look at a recently refreshed model like the 27” and not the 21.5” which was updated in the last year, fusion drives are gone.You claim Fusion drivers are no longer made, yet Apple is still selling the latest iMac with Fusion drives, at this point the topic is not only going off topic, but you keep making up as you go, iMac - Technical Specifications
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| | | +-o AppleASCWrapV4 <class AppleASCWrapV4, id 0x10000029a, !registered, !matched, active, busy 0 (177 ms), retain 5>
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| | | +-o iop-ans-nub <class AppleA7IOPNub, id 0x10000018b, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (177 ms), retain 9>
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| | | | "segment-names" = <"__TEXT;__DATA">
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| | | +-o RTBuddyIOReportingEndpoint <class RTBuddyIOReportingEndpoint, id 0x1000003c9, registered, matched, active, busy 0 (5 ms), retain 6>
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| | | | "IOProbeScore" = 0
| | | | "CFBundleIdentifier" = "com.apple.driver.RTBuddy"
| | | | "IOMatchCategory" = "RTBuddyService"
| | | | "IOClass" = "RTBuddyService"
| | | | "IOPersonalityPublisher" = "com.apple.driver.RTBuddy"
| | | | "IOProviderClass" = "RTBuddy"
| | | | "CFBundleIdentifierKernel" = "com.apple.driver.RTBuddy"
| | | | "role" = "ANS2"
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Embedded cores present on-die use firmware written with RTKit, which is Apple's own broadly-used RTOS on cores codenamed Chinook.
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xfffffff00ac4bee4): ANS2 Recoverable Panic - assert failed: [7442],src/drivers/apple/ans2/cmd_accelerator/cmd_accelerator.c:345:cmd fetch error for host 1 I/O SQ, rresp code 2, status_reg: 0x2100 - aspcore timer tick(17)
assert failed: [7442],src/drivers/apple/ans2/cmd_accelerator/cmd_accelerator.c:345:cmd fetch error for host 1 I/O SQ, rresp code 2, status_reg: 0x2100
RTKit: RTKit_iOS-1264.100.25.release - Client: t8012.release-AppleStorageProcessorANS2-717.120.1~65~717.120.1~65
It mostly just increases the wear. As you can see from mine, 5TB of writes consumed 2% of the drive. For the most part, the automatic TRIM optimizations that Windows will do will discard all of the previous blocks and there isn't any long term performance implications.@MacDefender Does restoration of system images many times hurt SSD? In the last 2 months I have restored system image 10 times at least for various reasons. I don't know the technical details about what happens when you restore system images, whether it's as simple as deleting all of current data and restoring from the backup image or something else also happens. Does doing it too many times hampers SSD in some other ways and does reformatting like you do while installing windows improve anything?
I'm planning to reinstall windows to stop my madness, install only the required apps and not restore system image again unless there's a reason to do so.
I haven't researched this product much other than what the description says. I think in general spending money on optimization products is probably not the best use.@MacDefender What is your opinion on the claims of Ashampoo Winoptimzer 18 from my post #36 here: Q&A - SSD Fresh, anyone heard of this? ?
I have SSD for system drive now also but still use WinContig for my games drive (HDD) which is free and just recently updated. I posted about it here: Update - Wincontig version 3.0 update & test! It is pretty nice if you haven't tried or tested it. And thanks for the reply!I haven't researched this product much other than what the description says. I think in general spending money on optimization products is probably not the best use.
Almost all defragmentation tools are built on top of the same Windows APIs. It is generally not necessary to defragment a SSD, and a SSD gives you much much better performance than a hard disk, so in terms of defrag tools I would just stick with the standard Windows one or something like JKDefrag, which is free and open source and implements the same kinds of algorithms: JkDefrag v3.36 (kessels.com). Again, these days, if your system drive and most of your applications aren't on a SSD, you really should get them on an SSD. Any SSD is faster than a defragmented HDD will ever hope to be, and there are a wide number of lower-cost SSDs where you can get a TB or so of storage at a reasonable price.