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Healthy disk speed?

What is a healthy read/write disk speed? I'm having issues with my Mac mini. I ran Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, and it was barely breaking 100 mb/sec. in either reading or writing. My MacBook SSD runs about 1300 mb/sec by comparison.

Posted on Sep 19, 2019 7:56 PM

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Posted on Sep 20, 2019 5:46 PM

crweisz wrote:
My MacBook SSD runs about 1300 mb/sec by comparison.

Your MacBook's SSD is an NVMe SSD which is able to achieve must faster speeds than any SATA based drive. For example a SATA SSD will max out at between 400-500MB/s. As mentioned by others, a single SATA hard drive is doing well if it is giving you 100MB/s speeds.

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Sep 20, 2019 5:46 PM in response to crweisz

crweisz wrote:
My MacBook SSD runs about 1300 mb/sec by comparison.

Your MacBook's SSD is an NVMe SSD which is able to achieve must faster speeds than any SATA based drive. For example a SATA SSD will max out at between 400-500MB/s. As mentioned by others, a single SATA hard drive is doing well if it is giving you 100MB/s speeds.

Healthy disk speed?

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