Thunderbolt 5 is still fairly new, with the newest MacBook Pro bringing the cutting edge technology to the masses.

OWC has unveiled its new Express 1M2 80G portable SSD, bringing another fast Thunderbolt 5 external storage option to Mac ...

Created Tech and Max Tech tested the $1,299 13-inch MacBook Pro with a 256GB SSD, the smallest capacity available, and their results show that the SSD’s read speeds are significantly slower than ...

Starting with the latter, Max Tech recorded drive performance with the Blackmagic SSD benchmark and saw sequential read speeds go from 2,900MB/s on the M1 MacBook Pro to 1,446MB/s on the M2 ...

Max Tech's Max Yurvey shared SSD benchmarks of the M2 MacBook Pro and compared it to its predecessor in an extensive vs. video. Yurvey also found the base model of the laptop to have just a single ...

And as a result of the fewer chips, the 512GB M2 Pro MacBook Pro has slower SSD performance than its predecessor. We assume the entry-level 16-inch MacBook Pro, which also has a 512GB SSD, has the ...

Sustained disk read speeds run by Max Tech using the BlackMagic Disk Speed Test showed a drop from about 2,900MB/s in the M1 MacBook Pro to 1,446MB/s in the M2 MacBook Pro.

Of course, the SSD in the entry-level M2 MacBook Pro is still quite fast, but cutting the speed by 50% compared to the previous model seems unfair to consumers, especially in a “Pro” machine.

It is unknown what could be causing this drop in SSD performance. YouTuber Created Tech suggests that it could be because Apple is using a single NAND chip on the 2022 MacBook Pro M2 models ...

Slower SSD performance appears to be limited to the 256GB version of the 13-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌, as higher capacity machines have not demonstrated the same issue.

Apple’s new M2 MacBook Pro appears to have slower SSD write and read speeds than its predecessor. YouTubers have discovered that the base model only has a single NAND chip, which could be ...