Just purchased a MacBook Air. What's the standard SSD Speed?

[Elektrofone]

I just purchased a refurbished MacBook Air and was running Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on it and was just wondering what speeds I should expect or what others had gotten. Thanks so much.

 

[ghanwani]

What year is your MBA?

It also depends on the size of your SSD. Here are the speeds for 2019.

Apple's 2019 256GB MacBook Air Includes Slower SSD Than 2018 Model

The 2019 MacBook Air, refreshed last week, appears to have a slower SSD than the 2018 MacBook Air, according to testing by French site Consomac. Using testing with the Blackmagic Disk Speed benchmarking test, the site found that the read speeds of the new SSD are lower. A test of the 2019...

www.macrumors.com

For earlier years, google is your friend.

 

[flaubert]

On the off-chance that you purchased a 2017 MBA, here is what I observed with my recent purchase:
- the original 128GB SSD had ~700 MB/sec writes and ~1400 MB/sec reads.
- after upgrading to a Phison-based 960 GB Micron NVMe SSD the write speed went up to 1400 MB/sec, matching the read speed at 1400 MB/sec.

 

[Elektrofone]

What year is your MBA?

It also depends on the size of your SSD. Here are the speeds for 2019.

Apple's 2019 256GB MacBook Air Includes Slower SSD Than 2018 Model

The 2019 MacBook Air, refreshed last week, appears to have a slower SSD than the 2018 MacBook Air, according to testing by French site Consomac. Using testing with the Blackmagic Disk Speed benchmarking test, the site found that the read speeds of the new SSD are lower. A test of the 2019...

www.macrumors.com

For earlier years, google is your friend.

Thanks. This is perfect. I bought a refurb 2019 and just want to make sure everything is working normally.