How to check M1 and RAM Swap file damaging the SSD?

[Phat^Trance]

Just switched to mac mini m1 from windows and was wondering how i can check the swap file ram usage that people talk about damaging the SSD drive? Is there a simple way to check this?

 

[deaglecat]

Just enjoy it. Don't worry Apple will have your back if they start failing en-masse.

 

[Phat^Trance]

Just enjoy it. Don't worry Apple will have your back if they start failing en-masse.

yeah i know, but im just curious

 

[Fishrrman]

Check the m-series subforum here at macrumors.
There's a long-running thread about excessive swapping and drive usage.
There ought to be pointers there as to what tool to use to ascertain this info.

 

[MacCheetah3]

View memory usage in Activity Monitor on Mac

In Activity Monitor, view the amount of system memory being used on your Mac, including physical, compressed, wired, and app memory.

support.apple.com

For any system, you don’t want to have frequently/constantly (very) high swap value or memory pressure. Occasionally is fine.

As far as I’m aware, macOS's integrated drive tools report overall/basic S.M.A.R.T. status. There are CLI programs to download and others to buy but because you’re simply curious, I’d suggest DriveDx as Binary Fruit offers a few day trial.

DriveDx - the most advanced drive health diagnostics and monitoring utility

DriveDx - the most advanced drive health (S.M.A.R.T.) diagnostics and monitoring utility. Save yourself the data loss and downtime that is associated with unexpected SSD and HDD failures. Don't worry about losing your important data, music, and photographs.

binaryfruit.com

Once installed, you’ll launch it, select your Mac’s internal drive, and look for the “Lifetime Writes” detail/value.

For my SSD with nearly three years of power-on time, it has had ~10 TB written. So, plenty of life left.