M1 Macbook Advice

[Jonr515]

I have a M1 MBP I purchased in 2020, it's starting to load slower. I have a 1tb hard drive that has 153 gigs of space remaining. Would it be a good idea to reformat the hard drive and review what I install, would that help speed things up again?

 

[BrianBaughn]

You might be thinking correctly about overcrowding affecting performance. Have you done a review of what's stored on there to see if any large files/folders can be trashed or off-loaded?

 

[Jonr515]

You might be thinking correctly about overcrowding affecting performance. Have you done a review of what's stored on there to see if any large files/folders can be trashed or off-loaded?

Yes, unfortunately one of my hobbies is photography and my photos are stored locally and backed up a few places. That accounts for 577GB of the storage. I don't really want to move lightroom catalog and photos to an external drive, 142 gigs is apps, the larger ones are tied to my photography workflow.

 

[JPack]

No, reformatting isn't going to offer any appreciable speed increase. M1 is a 5-year old chip and it's normal to experience slow downs on the latest macOS.