MacRumors

Base Model MacBook Air With M2 Chip Has Slower SSD Speeds in Benchmarks

The first embargoed reviews of the new MacBook Air with the M2 chip have now been published. One notable detail confirmed by The Verge is that the $1,199 base model equipped with 256GB of storage has ...
MacRumors

M2 13-Inch MacBook Pro With 256GB SSD Appears Slower Than Equivalent M1 in Real-World Speed Tests

Benchmark testing has indicated that the 256GB variant of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2 chip offers slower SSD performance than its M1 equivalent, and now real-world stress testing by YouTuber Max ...
9to5Mac

M2 MacBook Air takes performance hit with slower SSD on base model

The M2 MacBook Air reviews are in. While journalists and influencers praised it, there’s one concern about this new product. Just like the M2 MacBook Pro, Apple is offering a slower SSD on the base ...
Ars Technica

Kingston NV2 M.2 NVMe SSD Review, Multiple Benchmarks and Speed Tests & VS SanDisk Ultra M.2 NVMe 3D

Greetings everyone. This is a review video of me. In this review, I will be comparing my brand new Kingston NV2 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD to my current (old now) SanDisk Ultra M.2 1TB NVMe 3D SSD drive using ...
EDN

SSD performance: Benchmarks that matter

There is a growing performance scaling discrepancy between CPUs and hard-disk drives (HDDs). While CPU performance has improved by 175 times in the last 13 years, HDD performance has improved by only ...