UtterDisbelief
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte B760 Gaming X AX
- CPU
- i5-14600K
- Graphics
- RX 560
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
With the M1 Macs, Apple put the boot firmware on the internal SSD instead of in ROM, so once the internal drive dies, it won't boot any more, not even from an external drive.
This sounds quite serious, but as I understood the tech, once an SSD reaches Write EOL, the data on it can still be read, just no longer written to or over. If this remains true, even though your on-board SSD is no longer useful for storage or swap-filing, the Firmware should still be readable.
Is this not correct?
Or is the PRAM variable storage the issue?