Apple M1 SSD Lifespan Ageing. Do YOU have the problem?
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- UPDATE JULY 2021:
This would appear to be fixed in macOS 11.4
appleinsider.com/articles/21/...
Stop worrying about SSD wear on all Apple Macs including M1. Measure it for yourself! Full tutorial with background theory. Please comment on this video and tell me your SSD Drive Writes Per Day. Let’s put this issue to bed together!
#AppleM1 #AppleSilicon #SSD
Sections
0:00 - Welcome
0:44 - Intro
1:29 - SSD Why do they Wear?
4:20 - SLC vs TLC
6:55 - Apple, Toshiba and Kioxia
9:10 - Understanding Wear Levelling
11:52 - SSD Size matters!
12:22 - Understanding TBW and DWPD
14:36 - What About memory Pressure?
15:34 - Using smartctl to test SSD wear rate
22:19 - Using standard tools for wear rate
23:54 - Wrap Up
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I Intro
Reports on abnormally high rates of SSD life usage
Linus Tech Tips
linustechtips.com/topic/13067...
Toms Guide
www.tomsguide.com/uk/news/m1-...
MacRumours
www.macrumors.com/2021/02/23/...
1. Understanding DWPD Drive Writes Per Day
The Mac M1 systems use TLC NAND (Triple Level Cell) devices for SSD. None of this is new to Apple and had been in iphones and previous Macs.
In the brilliant IFIXIT M1 system teardown:
www.ifixit.com/News/46884/m1-...
they suspected that the M1 Air system contained Western Digital/SanDisk chips while the M1 Pro had Kioxia (Toshiba) devices for SSD. For all we know Apple change these things about according to machine type and SSD capacity.
SSD NAND storage devices always have an on-board controller that spreads the writes over all of the available cells to ensure “Wear Levelling” in order to maximize life. For this reason, a larger drive will accept a higher number of writes over its lifetime. The total write capacity over the full warranty life (3-5 years) that is “guaranteed” for the SSD is called the TBW (Total Bytes Written) and is expressed in TerraBytes (1TB = 1000GB)
The DWPD (Drive Writes Per Day) is a simple multiplication factor applied to the drive capacity that tells us how much data per day we could write to the drive and still be within warranty life specifications (again typically 3-5 years).
From my research a conservative (pessimistic) DWPD factor for Toshiba TLC NAND SSD would be 0.3. This means that it would be within warranty specs to write 30% of the drive’s capacity every day without risking long term endurance. This sounds like “enough” does it not?
On my Mac M1 the drive is 1TB capacity so I could write 300GB daily.
On a base M1 system with a 256GB hard drive this would be a 76GB daily threshold for writing before worrying about serviceable life.
2. Monitoring with SmartMonTools
Smartmontools can be downloaded at smartmontools.org
I am using V7.2 on an M1 system running Big Sur and also on an older imac Pro on Mojave.
The direct link for this download is here:
sourceforge.net/projects/smar...
3. Monitoring with standard Tools
You can easily estimate your write rate without the specialist tools.
First find the number of days your system has been running since the last reboot. To do this run the uptime command in a terminal window or… do to the apple icon top left, select About This Mac and the System Report… next select the System Report tab and then hit “Software” from the selection bar. You will see the “Time since boot” as the last item on the report page. When I tested, my system had been up for 12 days.
Next run the Activity Monitor and select Disk in the tabs at the top of the screen.
The summary panel at the bottom contains the total Data Written figure since the last reboot. In my case this was 166GB written in 12 days equating to approx. 15GB per day on average.
References
Understanding NAND Flash
www.simms.co.uk/nand-flash-ba...
How Apple’s Solid State Hard Drives Work
www.applegazette.com/mac/how-...
Apple Buy into Toshiba Memory
appleinsider.com/articles/18/... - Наука та технологія
The most complete explanation I've seen after weeks. Thank you for investing your time in this.
You're very welcome!
Discovered your channel last night and I gotta say what a gem! I love your teaching style!
Welcome! and Thank you!
This is the best explanation on this topic that I've ever seen!
Thank you, Mark!
Wow, thanks!
This tech educational videos along with music production are your strength. Keep it going , love the content so far!
Thanks, will do!
Erudite and clear as usual mate Going to start showing my IT students a selection of your videos that I think will be appropriate for them Thanks again for the hours of effort you are clearly putting in to these videos
Please do! That is most rewarding. Back in the day I taught engineers and customers at Hewlett Packard but that was a good 20 years ago (and some) :-)
Well I am not surprised to hear that. Your ability to break the material down in to bite sized chunks and accompany it with relevant extra explanatory material is the mark of a good teacher.
This is a great video. Thank you! And wish you a happy and healthy long life so you can happily run the test on your SSD after 50 yrs.
Amen to that!
Thank you so much for your time and expertise making this excellent video - this was so incredibly useful and answered so many questions at once…and also helped tremendously in the decision about the capacity of the SSD for my next MBP. Thanks again! 😊
Loved the theory and the explanation and the brief detour to contemplation of our mortal existence as a Mac user at the end
Thank you for investing your time in this, love from Malaysia.
My pleasure!
Super pedagogical presentation over the basic important parts of the SSD, the terms and calculations! It made it really comprehendible and easy to understand! Good work!
You're very welcome!
Thank you. A nice explanation!
I have a 8/512 GB Mac Mini. I got mine at the 16th of January.Currently I have 2.43TB written, so I am at 40.5 GB/day. But I am using it much. It runs probably around 15 hours per day (Homeoffice, private usage).
Good numbers!
One of the best videos on this topic that is getting lot of attention of late. A must watch for anyone who want to know more about the truth. I just applied your techniques I find that my DWPD is coming to around 23.5gb. My M1 system is a 512gb configuration! A big thank you for sharing such wonderful explanation!
Yes that's small beans usage. All good!
Great explanation of SSD writes. I learned a lot. Don't have an M1 machine yet, but looking to upgrade a mid-2010 iMac, so this video has really helped to diminish any concern about SSD wearing out too soon. Thanks.
Glad it was helpful Tim! Are you going to wait for M2/M1X or take the plunge soon?
This is the most in depth video covering the issue. Thank you so much!!
Glad it was helpful!
SIMPLY THE MOST FANTASTIC VIDEO ABOUT SWAP MEMORY EVER!!!! Congratulations on your video and all the effort you put into research to get to this INCREDIBLE result! SIMPLY THE BEST!
Wow, thank you!
I agree, what a great and simple explanation, thank you! Keep up with these amazing tech videos! Your competence really shows, have a great day
Possibly the most valuable channel I've found on youtube for a long time. These videos are next level.. The educating skills in these presentations are nothing short of phenomenal.
Wow.. thank you for showing me the way, not into such things so it's amazing that I was able to get my numbers. So, I use about 27 GB a day on my MBA 250 GB/8 GB RAM
Glad it was helpful! Thats nice small numbers. No worries.
Hi Mark,
thanks for the great video on ssd wearing. I'm more inclined to buy an M1 now, since the ssd wear was one of my biggest doubts.
However, could you share where you found the 0.3 factor for DWPD? I'd like to learn more on that before I make a final decision.
Thanks,
Pedro
This was great. I'm not a techie, but you explained it all in a way that I could understand and actually use. I think that unless you were some sort of business crunching massive amounts of data seven days a week, you would be fine. And if you were a business like that, you'd probably replace your computers well before you wore out the SSD drives. Thanks for another great video!
Thankyou!
That, my friend, gets you another subscriber!
Perfect explanation for a layman like myself.
4.3TB total, 4 months in so around 37GB a day. I'm more than safe with my 512GB ssd :)
The step-by-step tutorial really helped! Most other tech UA-camrs leave out certain steps. Much appreciated!
Excellent. On the money.
Another great explanation. Thank you very much.
You are welcome!
Where have you been all my life? Watched a couple of your videos this morning, and I already know 10x more than I knew before. Well explained in easy terms (let’s face it most IT stuff is obscured behind unnecessarily scary jargon which I’m sure is aimed at making some people look smarter than others). I’ll be watching this space for more! Excellent presentation.
Many thanks!
Amazing video. You should have way more views and subscribers!
Working on it!
Feels like back to class again! Amazingly clear... Thx !
I saw your other video about M1 8/16 Gb Ram using Logic Pro, and got it well. Thx again!
I'm using Logic Pro 10.6 with my old macbook air, for playing what i would call "live sets", playing for around 3 hours,
25 tracks more or less in Logic pro project (16 to 20 elements, samples and loops, per tracks in this "live loops" way)
so ... i can have around 500 pre-loaded elements in the Ram! My macbook Air running an intel i7/8Gb of RAM is totally ...SMOKING!!!
I don't even speak of the buffer that i need... at least at 512 (if not 1024!) Not to have my CPU crashing...
For sure i need to limit the VSTs & plugins use to the strict necessary: Apple EQ on each track (over the magic EQ3 from fabfilter...), few compressors on my groups, one IR1 Rev, one H-delay... Very very tight, to keep all this running. So? i go for the Update with those magic M1 chips.
I'm about to order the New 14" Macbook pro thinking of 1Tb SSD and 16Gb Ram, (32Gb seams extremely massive and 400$ for it a bit excessive... Don't you think? Some say that 16Gb on those new ones are as powerful as 32Gb on the old Intel model...) But i'm mostly wondering of the "utility" of 10 cores CPU versus 8... A video about it, or any suggestion, would be amazing!
It's seriously a pleasure to hear you talking so clearly and with so much ease, about those ..."Things" that we are bound to: to express, to create, to work and communicate! Shine!
I hear your questions regarding 16 vs 32 Gig ram. What I understand is regardless of what pc or Mac 16 G ram is still 16 G. You can't really expect the ' Shared memory' to make up the difference in memory pressure. I have had cash in hand for a new machine for months trying to determine what the most advantages configuration is for my modest studio. I have a sub powered older Dell quad core that has such high latency when using external idi controllers that makes it useless. As well I have heard that external ssd are not as responsive on recall of samples and I am tempted to pay the additional$400.00 for an extra terabyte of ssd in the mac( mini M1 or Mac studio Max) just to give me the piece of mind .
wow this is amazing, the explanation was clear and the video was very informative, keep up with the good job! (I even subscribed :) )
Thanks for the sub!
I don't have an M1 Mac, but I am considering one very soon. When I saw the news about the large amount of SWAP on the 8GB models, I got concerned a bit. But Mark, You've put all of these concernes to rest, very informative and educational, thank You !
Glad to be able to help with the context.
I'm really impressed by the quality of this video. Brilliant stuff.
Thanks!
You're the best Sir Mark Payne. Great tutorial, wonderful explanation.
Wow, thanks!
@@MarkPayneAudio You're welcome Sir.
Great, now I am more relaxed and can calculate myself. Thanks a lot, this was outstanding
Glad it helped!
Fantastic explanation. Clear, precise and simple. Thank you. Will have to look at the disk writes after a long render to have a better idea of where I stand. I just bought my M1 Max, 32Gb RAM/GPU, 1Tb SSD a couple of weeks ago, so I hope at least Blender and Logic won't destroy it too soon! I do get a whopping amount of swap whilst rendering and watching UA-cam on Safari at the same time, but I'll be sure to keep checking my daily usage to see where I'm at and if there is anything I can do more efficiently. Thanks again! Subbed. Slightly less anxious about it now.
Cool!
Excellent explanation Mark! Love your work!
Question, is it possible to allocate swap memory to an external SSD?
I know windows used to (and maybe still does) have a feature like this, but Mac does not. The reason it doesn’t is because an external SSD is many times slower than the internal one so it would slow the whole computer down as it was waiting for memory to write and be read from the external SSD.
I'm using my base MacBook Air for university works and my "Data Write Per Day" is 6.5GB. I appreciate these kind of proper evaluation.
Nice!
Best vids indeed, super enjoyable and educational
Such a brilliant and underrated video, hats off Mr. Payne.
Thanks!
Perfect explanation. I love your way of explaining things!!! Thank you Mark! :-)
My pleasure!
Thank you. Terrific video. I'm at 28 GB/day on a MBP with 1TB SSD. Had the machine since Jan 1. It's used heavily for Audio Work (Logic). I also teach daily with it - about 3 hours of live class time on Zoom Mon-Fri teaching comp sci, programming and front/back web dev. Still, that can't amount to many writes. My initial install of 500 GB of audio sample libraries in early Jan skews this heavily. Lately, it's averaging only 9GB/day (100 GB with an uptime of 11 days).
That is very low write rate :-) Can I ask, is this a 16GB or 8GB system?
Ditto on the other comments made. Excellent explanation and real world testing. I love the speed of the internal SSD but this issue had me nervous. Fears calmed.
Excellent Kurt!
This video is awesome. Thanks a lot for a great work! Subscribed 🤝
Wow, great video. Loving the depth of your understanding!
Glad it was helpful!
Love the old school relationships, easier to understand. Thank you kindly.
Thanks for the video, Mark.
Just sharing data from my system.
I have a 2014 MacBook Pro 13 with a 256GB SSD (intel machine of course). I’ve used it everyday for the past 6.5 years.
My usage metrics are as follows:
TDW: 55TB
Daily Written Data: ~23GB
Cool
You are amazing at explaining complex concepts!
Thanks!
Lovely in-depth video. Helped ease my nerves
Cool!
First time ever watching your channel, will be back. Excellent explanation. 10/10 with a little bit of background history too. By the way, you are the first person I’ve ever seen on UA-cam to use an iPad Pro in a way that’s more than just a “teleprompter” let alone the Apple Pencil and certainly the first to screen capture from it rather than using an overhead camera shot.👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Out of curiosity what are you using to cast your iPad screen for capture? 🤷🏼♂️✌🏼
Yes, when I teach in a classroom I whiteboard a lot so this seemed to be a natural alternative for me. It took a while to find a WB that worked for me and this is MS Whiteboard, part of 365. I just screen record it on the iPad ... with audio so that I can sync it later in FCP.
@@MarkPayneAudio you do it seamlessly; so much so that I was fooled into asking the wrong question. Honestly thought you were capturing on the fly rather than merging in the final edit. Maybe you could look into doing such & cut a step out in your workflow - capture over USB-C from your iPad Pro.
Arh... well I do capture on the fly. What you see me type on camera is what you are seeing on the capture screen. I have to merge and sync 4 elements. 1. The recorded audio... from a studio mic above me off camera (mostly ! :-)) 2. The main camera, 3.The screen captures from any demo computers 4. The whiteboard.
Thank u so much. It is very useful information, and a very clear explanation. Great job, sir.
You are most welcome
Yes!!! :-) Thank you very much, Professor Payne! :-))) Great answers for people like me, who are using computers, but have no idea of how they actually work! 🙏
Prof Payne.... I like that but unfortunately.... I am just a Mr!
@@MarkPayneAudio hey, you‘re at least „Professor“ Payne, I think...;-)
Really well Explained! Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Mark really interesting and explained in a way I could fathom. My Mac Pro Mid 2012 OS 11.2.3, uptime 3 days data read 27.7GB / written 26.35GB SSD 1TB Seagate FireCuda 120 SSD ZA1000GM10001. Thanks for a great channel.
Thats write rate is nice small numbers :-)
Hey Mark. This was such a nice video, congrats !.
Nice edition btw.
This might be offtrack but I was wondering… could you do a video talking a bit about how to take care of the M1’s battery ?. There are a couple of videos out there on youtube but I just love your way of explaining stuff !!!
Thank you so much, and cheers from Chile >:D
Not sure I have that planned!
Great class! Thanks for the info
My pleasure!
Thank you for this explanation
You are welcome!
Thank you for taking the fear out of any fear-mongering going on.Great to know.
My pleasure!
Great video! Thanks for sharing this information. I'm a heavier user on my 1tb m1pro 16. I'm using 97.7gb a day on average. I will say that my computer has been using much less memory since a recent update so I'm sure that is helping me stay out of swap. SMART still shows 0% usage in 130 days of use. I'm happy to know that I will get a long life out of this computer and be able to pass it on for life after me.
Excellent and well explained!
Glad it was helpful!
Great job explaning this.
Thanks!
Superb video, thank you for taking the time to explain the (non) issue. I've been writing ~200GB a day on a 8GB/512GB M1 Air. Percentage used: 0%
Just to update on this, having monitored for the past 24 hrs I've written 49GB to the drive. I've been running the Beta Big Sur since December, alongside Parallels Technical Preview and Microsoft Edge Insider so I suspect the cause was badly optimised software. The Epic Games launcher was also pummelling the CPU for a while before I noticed it on the Activity Monitor.
Good numbers
Another masterclass! Thank you, Mark. My Mac Mini M1 16/512 : 2,92TB written since december 21 2020. I use it about 4 hours per day, mainly for Logic Pro X in Rosetta 2 mode and Ableton Live 11. Looks like the SSD will last longer than I do(62)....... :)
Thats a worry when a computer can outlive you! I feel your pain!
Excellent video! I have a 16GB RAM 256GB M1 Air. Running smartmons using your tutorial I found that I have written just over 4 TB is 7 months, which comes out to about 19 to 20 GB per day, well under the 75 GB per day. So theoretically this M1 machine should last for quite a while before the SSD wears out.
Brilliant. Took off fear before buying my first Mac.
You are an amazing educator "the best", wow great info on this topic
Appreciate that!
Excelent video, congratulations.
Epic! The BEST video about it)
Thank you so much!)
Thanks Cherry!
Thank you! Nice Video!
As a Bachelor in Computer Science student my daily write is approx 27gb. I do all the college assignments and coding and attending Gmeet and Zoom for online classes watching video lectures and surfing through the web etc etc. I'm currently using the 8gb/256gb version of M1 MacBook Air.
Finally, It's a nice and technical expression instead of empty words. Thank you very much. In short, my MBP ( 16/256) won't die in five years If I limit myself to 75GB usage per day. Good to hear that. So, I have one more question. Will SSD slow down over time?
I think this very unlikely and super difficult to measure... so no! :-)
Thanks for the explanation 👍
No problem 👍
Wow, thank you so much Mark! I've learned lots from you! I've had my 1 TB, 16 GB RAM, M1 Air for two days! 😀
Using your program, I've written 515 Gigabytes over those days, which divides out to be 257.5 GB/day. I'm not too worried since I've been downloading lots of programs into my SSD. Using the activity monitor, I have written 78.4 GB over the past 22:35 hours. I think I'm alright.
Great to hear! That will propably settle down anyway and it sounds like you are in install phase as you say.
Well I have had my MBA 8gb for 3 days and this is the results I am getting, I am using FCPX and keeping my video files only on my external SSD, I am starting to think theres something wrong with my laptop.
Data Units Read: 3,366,935 [1.72 TB]
Data Units Written: 4,000,152 [2.04 TB]
Ale_Filmmaker did it ever settle down?
@@TheMrboombostic yes it did, I think the main reason it settled is because I am creating proxies for my 4k footage (1080p) and turned off GPU acceleration in Lightroom, I am editing all day and I am getting around 30 gb/day of data writen, I am also using a external SSD (I am not sure how much that helps).
If the SSD breaks down after 3 years, great, thanks for the free M4. Apple warranty/service is great.
Thanks for the detailed explanation of the memory swap on apple M1. I have noticed that using a memory cleaning application like Memory clean 2 or similar program will push more data to be written on your SSD . So I believe using these applications will increase the data written on your SSD just by pressing the clean button which does no magic to the RAM, it only moves data from RAM to SSD even when your RAM is not under pressure. We would be better off if we let macOS do its magic in managing memory then using some random third party application that does nothing special.
Such a good video! I am no longer concerned. Purchased a 512GB M1 Pro one month ago and have done 24.77GB per day. I am interested to see how that number changes after having done all of my data migration and app install duties. On 3.75 (roughly) days of uptime my average is 3.94GB. That’ll do nicely.
No worries there then Adam, like we said, In my opinion this was a blown up issue and effects very few people. Let's see!
Great video again. Cheers.
Thank you! Cheers!
amazing explanation!
Amazing. Thank you!
Thank you too!
Omg … you are awesome. Great great video!
Thanks for your video ☺️ so cool !
Glad you liked it!
Great detailed video, sorry I only watched the last 10 minutes video, but how much RAM do you have in your machine?
16GB
Brilliant. Thanks Mark.
Very welcome
Damn Mark! THAT was really good!
Cool!
Fantastic video!!
Thank you very much!
Awesome explanation as ever, thank you Mark! I have been watching your videos a lot now, and I must say, I am really enjoying these.This is for all as a question. I am on the verge of buying a Macbook, the only thing that I need suggestion with is; will Minitab software and Power Bi work on it? I have been researching a lot about this, but have not got a definite answer and that is stalling my first Macbook purchase. I would buy the 512 / 8. Would parallels do the trick for me, not sure
Sorry that I am not using Parallels or the other s/w you mention so I cannot add value there!
Thanks much for the reply Mark 👍
Great video
Great content. Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
perfect explanation thank you
Thanks
Hi, thanks for the video very clear. Why the factor is 0.3 ?
Hi. Thanks for this very informative video. I recently impulse bought a discounted Mac Mini 8GB M1 with 256GB and mainly intend to use it to learn and use Logic (moving over from PC and Cakewalk). I plan on on using an external ssd to store my Logic projects as well as the Logic sound library and other plugin samples/sound libraries. I thought that this would be the best way to reduce writes on the internal drive. Is this a good idea?
I would say... dont worry about it. The excessive write thing was more about memory pressure than usage of the disk by applications.
Thanks for sharing this info. Very usefull 🙂
Glad it was helpful!
@@MarkPayneAudio That info was cristal clear and we should all be able to know that before buy any laptop. Can't apreceate enough the fact that you took the time to help us out. Thank you very much.
I have been wondering if there is any advantage from working with certain apps installed on a external drive so we can spare the internal ssd.
Great explanation 🙂😎
Thanks! 😃
Great , you are really good educator
It's my pleasure
Great vid!. Love my mac😀
Same here!
Your video was great
Thank you! You are a fast watcher... its just gone up!
@@MarkPayneAudio I watch all videos at 1.75 speed, unless it is a song.
interesting video, thank you!
Glad you liked it!
thanks for your explanation Ik have a 256 GB en have it sinds 22 febr. I have written in total 1110GB, that's about 39 / 40 gb per day... I'm safe! Thanks!!
Good numbers
Great video. The only thing you should have covered is how to use the percentage to figure the lifespan of the drive. Ie if you use 1% in 2 months then you will use 100% in 200 months or *16.6 years* . I don't think it is Apple haters but people who just look at the write number and not the percentage number.
Great vid! Thanks for the explanation.
What if I'm going way over the daily limit? I have 20,72 TB written in less than a month on a brand new 256 gb Air. I wasn't planning on keeping this device for more than a year, but after doing the math it seems like I need to upgrade ASAP :(
Thanks for a thorough explanation. I. Do find from others that turning off the disk cache in Firefox & Chrome will help a lot. Also, Zoom has a ‘universal’ binary which uses M1 code. Anyway, I bought my MBA 256/8 end of Jan second hand and it only 8 power cycles logged so guess it was not too much used. Up to Saturday I had 17.3TBW recorded. I’m seeing a lot less daily since dropping Firefox and using Safari instead. Looking forward to the next update.
17 TB written in 2 months is indeed a lot. Say 280 GB a day, well over the DWPD numbers was are assuming for that 256GB SSD. Keep and eye on that. I am not liking the sound of what Firefox is doing.
Superb channel
Thanks a lot Pete!
Hi Mark, thanks for the nice video, it’s very clear but it triggered a concern:
According to your arguments, I see that the DWPD should be a function of the actual free space instead of the total SSD space. Is that correct?
And if so, would that means that we should seriously consider to always have a min of ~100GB free in our SSD?
(Such that we can “safely” write our 100GBx0.3 = 30GB per day, which matches your estimation that we can assume as a typical number.)
A feedback would be appreciated!
Thanks!
I like your thinking. The SSD can only write to the free space that is left. Unless the controller is operating some kind of re-write/migrate policy where old established data that we have read only attitudes to is migrated around so that the free space (as a result) is also being migrated around?
Hi there, did you make a video on external ssd drives lately? I thought you had mentionned you did in a previous video on Macbook air M1.
Wow, I was just here to get tips on running Logic Pro. Now, I have a firm understanding on how HDs & SSDs work, woohoo thanks!!:)).
Happy to help!
You've made me more curious to use the terminal , whats a good resource to become unscared :)
Ok so I am rusty but I learnt how to operating and administer Unix systems back in my computer career days with HP. macOS is Unix compliant. I used to teach Unix system admin to customers back in the day when people would attend a residential 1 week class for such a thing! This kind of resource is out there if you want to put some time into it www.guru99.com/terminal-file-manager.html