Is this write speed normal or I'm I having a faulty disk?

I'm Malshan,


I've recently bought a new MacBook Pro-15 2019.

Specs are:

i9 2.3GHz

16GB RAM

512GB SSD.


My concern is about the write speed of the disk. It's around 1800 MB/s. Please refer the below image. Is this normal or I'm I having a faulty disk? In the internet I saw disk speed is almost identical for both read and write and it's around 2500 MB/s.


I highly appreciate your help.

Thank you very much!


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Posted on Aug 9, 2019 1:54 AM

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Aug 11, 2019 6:19 PM in response to MalshanFernando

Writes are normally quite a bit slower. Adding a write buffer can make the drive appear to write faster, but there is a trade-off.


Some manufacturers choose to add a larger buffer for write data, others use a smaller one. The larger the buffer, the higher the risk that data might be acknowledged, but a problem or power failure may intervene that results in data loss, so this is a real trade-off, not just a cheap-out kind of a choice.

Aug 11, 2019 10:31 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Hi Grant Bennet-Alder,


Yours read and write speeds are almost the same even it's not a SSD. That's the concern I have with my disk since it doesn't. But I now think there may be some other things which I suspect is the fileVault could cause this problem but I'm not sure at all. The difference is roughly 700 MB/s which is in my opinion is huge. I hope someone with this very specs will submit a result so that we can make sure that my result is acceptable or no I think.


Thank you so much to support me.

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