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what is the 1tb ssd speed of the normal m2 mac mini?
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How do we know? Has someone post results, or is this an assumption?
Received my 1TB M2 mini yesterday, I can confirm this.
You can check it in this video, for example
its pretty much confirmed. read around the forum and there is quite a few posts that confirmed the result.
Tested my own new 1TB SSD M2 Pro Mac Mini yesterday with Blackmagic, can confirm it's blazing fast.
Read & Write ~6000 MB/s
we are talking about the read and write speed of the ssd, not in Hz but Mb per second
Why is it so difficult to get an answer to the question: does the 512GB or 1T ssd run at the same speed in the m2 basic as the do in the m2 pro?
I was on the phone - mostly on hold - with Apple Tech for about 40 minutes, talking to two different people. They couldn’t give me an answer. I even tried to make it simpler: do the m2 mini and m2 pro mini have the same number of NAND chips for the same ssd configurations - the 512gb or 1t sizes?
The question isn’t are the 512gb and 1t the same. It’s is the I/O speed the same for a 512gb (same 16gb RAM) size in the m2 and m2 pro.
Apologize for the iterations but the question has been asked above and people seem to be answering something else.
I was on the phone - mostly on hold - with Apple Tech for about 40 minutes, talking to two different people. They couldn’t give me an answer. I even tried to make it simpler: do the m2 mini and m2 pro mini have the same number of NAND chips for the same ssd configurations - the 512gb or 1t sizes?
The question isn’t are the 512gb and 1t the same. It’s is the I/O speed the same for a 512gb (same 16gb RAM) size in the m2 and m2 pro.
Apologize for the iterations but the question has been asked above and people seem to be answering something else.
M2 mac mini has max. 2 NAND slots, while M2 Pro mac mini has 4.
2* NAND chips means twice as fast. This leads to the following speeds:
CAPACITY -> M2 "basic" mac mini /// M2 Pro Mac Mini
256GB (1 NAND)1.500mBps (1 NAND)1.500mBps
512GB (2 NAND)3.000mBps (2 NAND)3.000mBps
1TB (2 NAND)3.000mBps (4 NAND)6.000mBps
2TB (2 NAND)3.000mBps (4 NAND)6.000mBps
4TB Not supported in basic (4 NAND)6.000mBps
8TB Not supported in basic (4 NAND)6.000mBps
But this ISN'T I/O. I/O will be the speed of USB 3.1 = 10Gbps, or thunderbol 4 = 40Gbps. The above speeds are internal speed, nothing to do with your external drives.
Neither is Ram memory bandwith. 100 GBps for M2, and 200GBps on M2 Pro. The amount of ram makes no difference on its speed.
Aaaand in case you are wondering, yes, the internal speed do matter if you'll use your mac mini for pro tasks, for surfing the web, or MS Office... M2 mini is more than enough.
Hope this makes it clear for you
Not to be nitpick but the M2 Pro mini actually has 8 NAND "slots". The "slots" are on both sides of the logic board so it is easy to miss even after tear down. That said it is still unknown as for which TB configs would Apple actually fills up all 8. Since Apple is using a minimum of 256GB per module as we have all known with the single-NAND fiasco, it probably means 2TB / 4TB / 8TB configs do get 8*256GB / 8*512GB / 8*1TB layout combinations.
That said, we are not ever seeing a doubling jump in speed going from 1TB to 2TB on the M2 Pro mini like we do from 512GB to 1TB. There must be another bottleneck in the system somewhere, likely in the SoC storage controller.
MglSaRu,
Thank you for your summary of M2 and M2 Pro SSD speeds. My wife and I have been waiting to upgrade our older iMacs and we finally made the jump with the M2 Mac minis. I ordered mine just a few days after they were announced. I remembered the review comments about the M2 MacBook Airs - that you need to go to at least 512GB to get a decent SSD speed. I wanted to get the M2 Pro, so I ordered the base model with a 512GB SSD. By the time I had it set up, the early reviews and tear downs were saying I should have ordered it with 1TB. I do minimal home/vacation personal movie editing, with iMovie only, and I have not noticed any internal speed issues. My external SSDs are all SATA, so I have not noticed any speed issues for external backups and file transfers.I just ordered my wife's Mac mini, with the benefit of all the internet reviews. I ordered the regular M2 version with 16GB of unified memory and a 1TB SSD. I probably should have ordered this configuration for my own Mac mini. In hindsight, I was too focused on "more horsepower is better", even though I don't really need the M2 Pro chip, and I did not wait for the early M2 Pro review SSD speed reviews.
Yes. The mini board has at most 2 NAND chips, and the 512GB config starts using two.
Where the M2 Pro mini board starts with 2 of 256GB NAND chips at 512GB, 4 of them at 1TB.