MacBook Pro 2023 SSD storage is slower than its predecessor
The new MacBook Pro is lightning fast, but there is also less good news. The SSD in the MacBook Pro 2023 is slower than its predecessor. This is what’s going on.
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MacBook Pro 2023 SSD: slower than predecessor
With the new MacBook Pro 2023, you have a super fast laptop at home. This is thanks to the new versions of the M2 chip (the M2 Pro and the M2 Max to be precise). Still, not everything is faster than the previous generation MacBook Pro (with M1 chip). The storage (SSD) is a bit slower.
For comparison: with the MacBook Pro 2021 with M1 Pro (or M1 Max), you achieved write speeds of 3950 MB/s and read speeds of 4900 MB/s (read). With the new model of the MacBook Pro 2023 (the entry-level model), the SSD gets stuck at 3155 MB/s (write) and 2973 MB/s (read). That is on average about 30% slower.
This story may sound familiar to you and it may be true. The MacBook Air 2022 already had this ‘problem’ with the SSD. You can read more about this in our MacBook Air 2022 review.
This is what’s going on with the MacBook Pro 2023’s SSD
The MacBook Pro 2021 has four 128GB SSDs. If a device has several SSDs and combines them, they can be used in parallel. This makes reading and writing jobs faster. The new MacBook Pro 2023 with M2 Pro only has two 256GB SSDs in the basic configuration. This makes this storage a lot slower.
But will you notice much of this during use? Not really, unless you have to write a lot of data to the SSD for a long time. The SSD in the MacBook Pro 2023 is still lightning fast.
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