Excessive SSD wear on M1 Macs

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For those of you with M1s, are you seeing excessive SSD usage?

https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/23/m1-mac-users-report-excessive-ssd-usage-potentially-affecting-the-components-lifespan/

After installing SmartMonTools, the SSD usage on my M1 Macmini looks normal.

However, I want to run a script daily and plot the usage to make sure it doesn’t suddenly spike.

Is there any way to give a specific command sudo priveledges, so that I don’ t need to enter a password each time? I want to run my script via cron.

sudo smartctl --all /dev/disk0 prompts for the admin password, which would defeat automation.

thanks

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Use sudo cron -e to create a privileged terminal command that won’t ask for authentication.

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