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2013 i7 SSD speeds.
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The wife's new 13" i7 MBA (8gb / 256GB) gets around 680 write and steady 700 reads. Will verify when I get a chance.
But ran it to compare to my new SSD (840 EVO) in my 2012 i7 MBP (~ 500 read and write).
But ran it to compare to my new SSD (840 EVO) in my 2012 i7 MBP (~ 500 read and write).
11" i7 with Filevault. My numbers are comparable to yours. The encryption and decryption slows things down a bit. That's all.
looking at getting an 11 inch with 8gb RAM and the 128GB SSD with i5,
anyone have a read/write speed for that setup??
yeah this is what i found out after testing and forum-ing 
without FV2 its closer the the Samsung 128 disk speeds.
regardless however even at current speeds it is supa fast at least fast enough for me wife... i may get her a 256 drive when those upgrades become available from OWC...
without FV2 its closer the the Samsung 128 disk speeds.
regardless however even at current speeds it is supa fast
at least fast enough for me wife... i may get her a 256 drive when those upgrades become available from OWC...i went in to the apple store this weekend and played with this exact setup. i think it is fast enough for my liking. not sure is FV was enabled.
unfortunately i didn't leave the store with it
yeah this is what i found out after testing and forum-ing
without FV2 its closer the the Samsung 128 disk speeds.
regardless however even at current speeds it is supa fast
I think I read somewhere that it has less to do with the manufacturer and more to do with the number of flash chips. The 128GB models have fewer (half?) chips than the larger 256 & 512 models. Since an SSD can write to multiple chips in parallel, speeds would be faster on the higher-capacity models.
So it's not Sandisk vs Samsung, it's the SSD capacity. It just happens that Sandisk makes the 128GB models.
i went in to the apple store this weekend and played with this exact setup. i think it is fast enough for my liking. not sure is FV was enabled.
unfortunately i didn't leave the store with it
I have no complaints. For me, everything is so fast already that the security of FV is well worth the (imperceptible) performance losses.
I've got the Air configured as shown in my signature. Not got Filevault enabled anywhere, but the 512GB has about 96GB free. Write speed is 711MB/sec and read speed is 727.9MB/sec according to the BlackMagic benchmark tool.
the 128gb ssd has 300ish write speeds and 700 read. the 700/700 that you see in 11 inch and 13 inch models are the 256ssd and above. it's due to the chips management and how the whole ssd works though in every day works you wont prolly notice any difference
