iMac 2017 5K 27 inch: Slow after replacement of Fusion Drive with SSD

I have iMac 2017 5K with Processor: 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5, Graphics: Radeon Pro 570 4 GB, RAM: 40 GB 2400 MHz DDR4. Replaced spinning HDD of Fusion Drive with Samsung SSD 870 QVO 1TB. Loaded MacOs Ventura on SSD. EtreCheckPro showed low read and write speeds. Report

Performance:

System Load: 1.88 (1 min ago) 1.81 (5 min ago) 1.71 (15 min ago) Nominal I/O usage: 0.06 MB/s

File system: 20.75 seconds

Write speed: 492 MB/s

Read speed: 528 MB/s

How to speed up this


iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 13.6

Posted on Jun 1, 2024 7:54 PM

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Jun 2, 2024 9:49 AM in response to Sushil Kumar Kamaraju

Sushil Kumar Kamaraju wrote:

TRIM is enabled. I do not know how to update internal SSD on Mac OS. Is there a way I can speed up my present system other than going for external NVME?

Other than what you have already done and keeping the existing hardware = machine ?


The only other Option would be NVME


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