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Last post: 11 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Jun 26, 12, 12:26 a.m.

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  • BuddhaHat

    I just saw these stats over at OSXDaily:

    MacBook Air 2012 SSD: writes at 364MB/sec, reads at 461MB/sec

    MacBook Air 2011 SSD: writes at 152MB/sec, reads at 145MB/sec

    MacBook Air 2010 SSD: writes at 157MB/sec, reads at 188MB/sec

    Apparently the performance increase is due to a supplier change from Samsung drives to Toshiba.

    I own a 2011 model, and want to upgrade. Has anyone here done it? If so, was it easy? What drive did you pick, and has it massively improved the performance?

    Jun 26, 12, 12:26 a.m. – Permalink
  • ernexbcn

    Just changing the SSD drive does that? doesn't the new Ivy Bridge chipset also help?

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    Dog-earJun 26, 12, 5:42 a.m. – Permalink
  • BuddhaHat

    Very possibly, but the jump is 140% from 2011 to 2012, and from what I've read about the performance improvements on the CPU side I didn't think it would result in that sort of a jump... 50% sure, but 140%? Surely updated SSDs have something to do with it?

    I'll keep reading....

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    Dog-earJun 26, 12, 7:23 a.m. – Permalink
  • deathboy

    sataIII

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    Dog-earJun 26, 12, 11:17 a.m. – Permalink

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