Apple's new MacBook Pro reverse upgrade? Hard drive reading and writing speeds are not as good as those of older models

[Gearbest News]Recently, Gearbestlearned that some overseas bloggers discovered that the read and write speed of the new 256GB MacBook Pro (M2 chip) solid-state drive is slower than the M1 version! Among them, the reading speed is 50% slower and the writing speed is 30% slower.

Apple M2 chip

Not long ago, Apple’s new generation MacBook Pro was officially launched. The new generation MacBook Pro is equipped with Apple’s new M2 chip. Although Apple is a bit “lazy” in terms of chip iterations. The M2 chip is just two M1 chips stitched together, but its performance is still significantly improved compared to the previous generation. But can you imagine that Apple, which is “lazy” in chip upgrades, actually “castrated” the hard drive of this computer, causing the current hard drive to read and write less quickly than the previous generation!

Apple MacBook Pro 2022

After disassembling the machine, an overseas blogger discovered that the 256GB version of the M2 chip MacBook Pro has only one NAND flash memory chip, while the previous generation used two flash memory chips, so the M1 chip version of the hard drive has faster read and write speeds.

The following are the test results shared by overseas bloggers:

13-inch MacBook Pro (M1/256GB) read speed: 2900

13-inch MacBook Pro (M2/256GB) read speed: 1446

13-inch MacBook Pro (M1/256GB) writing speed: 2215

13-inch MacBook Pro (M2/256GB) writing speed: 1463

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Additionally, only the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M2 chip appears to have a slower SSD, while the 512GB model's SSD has roughly the same read and write speeds as the M1 model.

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