SSD is showing slow performance...

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Patddfan wrote:

Hi, when I ran an etrecheck, I was told that my SSD performance is very poor lately. It says that my computer is under "heavy i/o usage" but I'm not sure what exactly is causing the problem.

That was what I got when I clicked on "review" next to "Heavy I/O usage" in etre check

Performance:

    System Load: 3.08 (1 min ago) 3.69 (5 min ago) 5.46 (15 min ago)

    Nominal I/O usage: 22.51 MB/s

    File system: 1057.92 seconds (timed out)

    Write speed: 3007 MB/s

    Read speed: 3105 MB/s

Whenever the system is running really slow, I usually go into the Activity monitor to check what's using too much CPU. Often times, I've seen processes such as "WindowServer", "Finder", and "spotlight indexer" with numbers over 100%, though, "syspolicyd" seems to be one that EtreCheck listed as using way too much CPU on occasion.

My question is this... If I got my MacBook Pro in 2020, could the internal SSD be failing, or would it be better to try reinstalling macOS 12.7.2? I'm going to need this computer for the spring semester which starts in a week, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Do you experience an issue...?

How much free storage space do you have(?) SSD like to have 15-20% free storage at all times to work efficiently.

Can I assume this is a 2019 Intel MBP.... <MacBook Pro 16″ macOS 12.7>

I see some Intel bench marks: