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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1882550" data-attributes="member: 396914">I said I would try to find what I had read. There were several articles.Here is one:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-bad-is-the-m1-macs-ssd-failure-problem/[/URL]and this:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://eclecticlight.co/2021/04/13/are-external-boot-disks-a-thing-of-the-past/[/URL]and:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://eclecticlight.co/2021/01/17/last-week-on-my-mac-1-true-recovery/[/URL]On that last article, the important part of it is that the final fallback for an SSD failure is actually stored in a Container on the SSD storage in the M1 system. So, if the SSD portion of storage fails, you lose the SSD (all containers) plus the Recovery and 1 True Recovery last ditch boot system.Putting it together, if the SSD fails, there is no boot, external or recovery. We'll see when/if failures start to appear. Hopefully there won't be many!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1882550, member: 396914"] I said I would try to find what I had read. There were several articles. Here is one: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-bad-is-the-m1-macs-ssd-failure-problem/[/URL] and this: [URL unfurl="true"]https://eclecticlight.co/2021/04/13/are-external-boot-disks-a-thing-of-the-past/[/URL] and: [URL unfurl="true"]https://eclecticlight.co/2021/01/17/last-week-on-my-mac-1-true-recovery/[/URL] On that last article, the important part of it is that the final fallback for an SSD failure is actually stored in a Container on the SSD storage in the M1 system. So, if the SSD portion of storage fails, you lose the SSD (all containers) plus the Recovery and 1 True Recovery last ditch boot system. Putting it together, if the SSD fails, there is no boot, external or recovery. We'll see when/if failures start to appear. Hopefully there won't be many! [/QUOTE]

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