The new MacBook Pro M2 Pro Base model with 512GB may appear to have slow read and write speeds. But, it’s not the case! I discovered a tool called fio (a command line tool) that the simulates semi real-word hard drive tests and the M2 Pro doesn’t always have slow SSD read/write speeds.
00:00 Quick unboxing
00:33 Intro
01:04 Slow SSD Speeds?
01:24 Simulating Real World SSD speeds using FIO
03:01 FIO speed results
03:12 Slow SSD a big problem?
04:11 Worth the upgrade?
FIO tool:
Can be installed via homebrew:
FIO manual:
In depth article from arstechnica
Some fio commands I ran:
fio –name=random-write-file-1MB –ioengine=posixaio –rw=randwrite –bs=1MB –numjobs=1 –filesize=5g –iodepth=1 –runtime=60 –time_based –end_fsync=1
fio –name=random-read-file-1MB…