The new 14-inch MacBook Pro 2023 with M2 Pro and a 2TB SSD has slightly slower reading speeds than its M1 Pro/1TB counterpart; managing 5,293 points on the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test compared to ...

It looks like the base-level 14-inch MacBook Pro running Apple’s new M2 Pro chip has worse SSD performance than its predecessor. According to tests run by 9to5Mac, the old M1 Pro MacBook Pro had a ...

The site's tests were performed on the $2,499 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar equipped with a 2.7GHz quad-core 8th-generation Core i7 processor, 16GB RAM, Intel Iris Plus 655, and a 512GB SSD.

This results in SSD read and write performance that’s dramatically lower than the previous generation. The base model M1 and M2 MacBook Air provide just 256GB of storage.

Supplies. Besides your MacBook and a clean space to work, you will need the following: 2.5" form factor SSD; 2.5" external enclosure; T8 Torx driver ...

Today, the lowest-end MacBook Airs and Retina MacBook Pros ship with a 128GB SSD as standard; Apple’s 256GB SSD adds $200, versus $500 more for 512GB, or $800 more for a Pro-only 1TB SSD.

Last month, it was discovered that the 256GB model of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M2 chip has up to 50% slower SSD read speeds and up to 30% slower SSD write speeds compared to the equivalent ...

We see an interesting contrast with the SSD inside each of these systems. In this case of the MacBook Air M2, it delivered a read speed that was a smidge faster than the Pro M2 at 2,800 vs 2,794 MBps.

We’re looking at over 33% and 82% speed gains for write and read speeds over the M2 MacBook Air’s 256GB SSD. That’s very impressive, of course. 256GB M3 MacBook Air SSD read speed test vs ...

We started off comparing the SSD speed which was faster and more consistent in the new MacBook. This should result in a faster loading applications and bootup of the Mac, but in real world usage ...

While the Mac mini and MacBook Pro are still blazing fast when it comes to SSD speed — 9to5Mac recorded write speeds of 3154.5Mbps in the M2 Pro MacBook Pro — it’s never good to see ...

The good news is that the SSD issue only affects the entry-level MacBook Air with 256GB of storage. If you bump up the storage capacity to 512GB, 1TB, or 2TB, you won’t run into these problems ...