{"id":671,"date":"2014-05-07T22:16:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/?p=671"},"modified":"2014-05-07T22:22:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T20:22:14","slug":"mac-ssd-speeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/mac-ssd-speeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac SSD speeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been <a href=\"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2014\/05\/05\/ssd-lotterie-mit-apple\/\">some complaints recently<\/a> about speeds of SSD drives built into Mac computers, mostly MacBook Pro and Air. Supposedly current models are much slower than earlier models, sometimes as slow as only 50% of the transfer rates.<\/p>\n<p>As I was curious I benchmarked mine. I used <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/blackmagic-disk-speed-test\/id425264550?mt=12\">Blackmagic Disk Speed Test<\/a> which is available for free from Apple&#8217;s App Store.<\/p>\n<p>I got 416 MByte\/s for writing, and 474 MByte\/s for reading for my 512 MB SSD drive, which I consider pretty fast:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-07-at-22.17.55.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-673\" src=\"http:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-07-at-22.17.55-1024x473.png\" alt=\"Blackmagic Disk Speed Test results\" width=\"474\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-07-at-22.17.55-1024x473.png 1024w, https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-07-at-22.17.55-150x69.png 150w, https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-07-at-22.17.55-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Screen-Shot-2014-05-07-at-22.17.55.png 1656w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a MacBook Pro Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013 with 2.4 GHz Intel Core i7. My SSD is a <code>APPLE SSD SD512E Media<\/code> which is obviously made by SanDisk.<\/p>\n<p>What about yours? Please comment here in my blog, giving your machine and SSD details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment about recent SSD speed complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-computers","tag-benchmarking"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mac SSD speeds - Ralf&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Comment about recent SSD speed complaints.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bergs.biz\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/mac-ssd-speeds\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mac SSD speeds - 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