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ssd speed

  1. DopplerEffect

    Any SSD options comparison by speed for New MBPs available yet?

    Hi Everyone! I am planning to buy 14” M2 MacBook- actually I’m pretty decided - 30cMax/32/2TB, but… Want to check for “most attractive” SSD option with good incremental raise in speed i.e Write (I know for each capacity there’s value range)? It’s been 4ish weeks since launch but can’t seem to...
  2. P

    Swap 2013 iMac screen with 2015 iMac screen - and internal SSD speed difference.

    Hi there, I’ve got a lot out of support from the Mac Rumor forums in the past but this topic was one I wasn’t able to get a clear answer on. So I thought I might share in case it helps anyone else. I picked up a late 2015 iMac (1080p non-retina i5-5575R @ 2.80GHz) cheap as the display glass...
  3. S

    Really confused - SSD speeds in USB-C Enclosure and Hub

    I just got an M1 MacBook Air. My prior computer was 2011 iMac. I do video and photo as hobby, been doing it for 25 years so I've gone from FW400 to FW800 to USB and then a Thunderbolt 1 enclosure on my iMac. I now need to modernize all this to ideally USB-C or Thunderbolt. I purchases some...
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    2018 Macbook Pro 15 ssd speed

    Hello everyone, Recently I bought a new customized Macbook pro 15. It is actually baseline and only I upgraded the SSD to 512 GB. Today I installed the Blackmagic speed test app and I noticed that the write speed is 1790 MB/s and the read speed is 2580 MB/s. I was wondering if anybody knows...
  5. Ylan

    2017 iMac SSD Slower than 2015 for small files

    According to Mac Performance Guide the new 2017 iMac's SSDs are slower than the 2015 models when writing small files. Does anyone know how this could be? It's only for smaller files, on the whole they are a lot faster. As i read this, I thought about two possible reasons: Apple has made...